Milea, Grevena

Milea (Greek: Μηλέα; also Milia) is a village and a community of the Grevena municipality.

[6] The village's original position has changed in the early '70s, when it was completely abandoned due to soil instability.

In 1997 an inhabitant called Athanasios Delivos discovered the first pair of tusks by chance, after a heavy rainfall.

During the excavations which also continued in the sequential years, a partial skeleton of the mastodont "Mammut" borsoni (Hays, 1834) (Proboscidea) was discovered.

The skeleton includes substantial portions of the skull — maxillary area — with left and right molar series, with the longest upper tusks ever found in Greece (4.39 m), the most complete mandible with left and right molar series (M2 + M3) and two lower incisor tusks, as well as post-cranial skeleton.

Tusks of "Mammut" borsoni from Milia, the longest tusks ever recorded.