Researchers Discover Lost Ancient Greek Island
The location of a squelch defeat of Sparta by Athens , the ancient urban center of Kane is mentioned countless times in ancient Greek literature by writers such as Herodotus and Sappho . Yet the exact placement of the island on which the city sat has long puzzled archeologists . It now seems , however , that what is a modern - day peninsula jutting out from the Turkish coast used to be isolated from the mainland by sea , imprint the legendary lost island ....