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View of Temple of Zeus in 1806 from the Northeast with a mound of ruined Byzantine Church at left in background (highlighted here in green). W. Gell Itinerary of Greece (London 1810) Plate 2 |
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After a 550 year gap in permanent human presence at Nemea, life returned, not earlier than about 1120 A.D. A chapel was built in the ruins of the Early Christian Basilica, and at least two small houses of a clearly agricultural character were constructed. During this time a man-made drainage channel -- the so-called Nemea River -- reclaimed the land for agriculture, but by the time of the Fourth Crusade (1203) activity had stopped. Sporadic human presence can be traced in the later 13th and early 14th centuries, and again toward the end of the 14th. 
Byzantine Graves South of the Basilica Thereafter, the "river" silted up and human activity seems confined to occasional grazing around a swampy valley bottom.
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