Poliochne
Ghost town · Greece
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- —
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 39.854, 25.343
Why it was abandoned
🏛️ Ancient ruins
Detected automatically from the text: archaeological site on Lemnos island, Greece
History
Poliochne, often cited under its modern name Poliochni, was an ancient settlement on the east coast of the island of Lemnos. It was settled in the Late Chalcolithic and earliest Aegean Bronze Age and is believed to be one of the most ancient towns in Europe, preceding Troy I. Anatolian features of the earliest layers were affected by cultural influences from Helladic Greece, about the start of Early Helladic II, ca. 2500 BC.