Archaeologists Discover Potential Stays of Temple of Poseidon

Archaeologists have found what they imagine was a temple devoted to Poseidon, the Historic Greek god of the ocean, tsunamis, and earthquakes. The two,000-year-old construction on Greece’s Kleidi website close to Samikon matches descriptions written by historical Greek historian Strabo, and interdisciplinary analysis means that the temple might have been constructed due to the world’s historical past of maximum geological occasions.

A staff from the Austrian Archaeological Institute, Germany’s Mainz and Kiel Universities, and the Greek Ephorate of Antiquities of Elis carried out the analysis. The dig coincides with a long-term undertaking led by Mainz College Professor Andreas Vött, who has spent 20 years finding out geological change and tsunamis on this portion of the southwestern Greek coast.

The realm was settled through the Mycenaean Era (round 1600 to 1100 BCE) and its society thrived for hundreds of years. Whereas the peninsula was each safe and simply accessible from the mainland, it was additionally battered by the Ionian Sea. Recurrent tsunamis struck the area, with the latest hitting the coast in 551 and 1303 CE. In accordance with Mainz University, the traditional Greeks might have chosen this location for Poseidon’s temple due to its precarious relationship with the ocean.

The ruins have been first found in 2021, nevertheless it wasn’t till this fall that the staff linked the location to historic information of the temple. “The situation of this uncovered sacred website matches the main points offered by Strabo in his writings,” mentioned Birgitta Eder, director of the Athens Department of the Austrian Archaeological Institute.

Over the subsequent few years, the researchers plan to proceed analyzing the location from archaeological and geological views, finally investigating the temple’s “geomythological” significance.