The Archaeological Museum of Chios has in its collection an inscription mentioning the house of the Homerides. It was discovered in the fortress of Chios in the 1960s and it is the first inscribed testimony mentioning the Homerides as a clan coming from the island of Chios. Discovering the inscription at that specific location, as well as the fact that, according to tradition, Homer had lived in Chios and left descendants behind, have led researchers to suggest that the Homerides indeed came from the poet and lived in the ancient city of Chios, which lay at the same geographic location as its modern counterpart.