The Lost City of Tenea

Ancient tradition held that Tenea was settled with Trojan captives brought back after the fall of Troy — and its people prospered on the road between Corinth and Argos, proud enough of the story to mint it. The city itself stayed lost until 2018, when excavations at Chiliomodi finally located it. These genomes follow the Teneans from the Archaic age deep into Roman times.

The genome-wide data behind this entry was published in Genetic affinities between an ancient Greek colony and its metropolis: the case of Amvrakia in western Greece.

Every Ancestrify Global25 report includes the free Notable Matches lens: your coordinates are compared to every sequenced member of every catalog entry, and the distance to the closest member is reported — a Euclidean distance in the same 25-dimensional space the Distance lens uses. Because these are a small group of real individuals, not a population average, distances naturally run larger than population distances — that is expected, not a poor result. And one thing is never claimed: a small distance means similar ancestry composition, not that the Lost City of Tenea are your ancestor. See how it looks in the live demo or read about the full G25 analysis.

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  Who were the Lost City of Tenea?

  The Lost City of Tenea (c. 525 BCE–200 CE, Chiliomodi, Corinthia, Greece) are one of the Iconic discoveries entries in our Notable Matches catalog, represented by 9 sequenced ancient genomes published in the study "Genetic affinities between an ancient Greek colony and its metropolis: the case of Amvrakia in western Greece".

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  What does "matching" the Lost City of Tenea mean?

  Your Global25 coordinates are compared to the entry's sequenced members and the distance to the closest one is reported — a Euclidean distance in the same 25-dimensional reference space the Distance lens uses. A notable entry is one person or one small burial group, not a population average, so distances naturally run larger than population distances.

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  Are they my ancestor?

  No — and no DNA test can show that. A small distance means your genome sits near theirs in a shared reference space: similar ancestry composition, not descent. Ancestrify never claims a notable individual is your ancestor or relative.

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  How do I see my own distance to the Lost City of Tenea?

  Notable Matches is a free lens on every Ancestrify Global25 report — never sold separately. Order the G25 analysis (29.99 EUR), and your report ranks your coordinates against the full catalog, with a portrait, dossier and map for every entry. The public demo shows the lens with example data.

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