The ruins of the city are now found east of the modern town Ahmetbeyli in the Menderes district of İzmir Province, Turkey.

It was, then, particularly appealing for the Aeolian controllers of Claros to claim that Mopsus had outwitted Calchas and caused his death on the site.

[2] H. W. Parke suggests that in the seventh century BC "Claros was in the control of Notion, which must have remained a small Aeolian town dominated by its more powerful inland neighbour [Colophon], but also protected by it against the threat of Lydia.

By the late fourth century BC it was joined in a sympoliteia (federal league) with Colophon[5] and "by the Roman period the name of Notion dropped out of use completely.

In July of 2023, a small hoard of 68 gold persian darics was found buried underneath the walls of one of the houses.