In ancient "the city of goats" found two figurines of the Greek goddess Demetra

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Source: AhmeBayram/Anatolian Archaeology; Vokrugsveta.ru processing during excavation in the Ancient Greek city of Egi which name occurs from the Greek word αίγα that the goat means, the Turkish archeologists found in a well Demetra's two small figurines — goddesses of Earth, agriculture and fertility in the Greek mythology. Ruins of Egi based in the VIII century B.C., are in the west of modern Turkey, in the territory of Province of Manisa. Unlike other Greek settlements on the peninsula Small Asia, Egi was constructed not on the sea coast, and at a distance from the Aegean Sea, on a slope...