Agioi Deka ruins of Gortys. There is a local archaeological museum containing finds from the area. Other archaeological remains include the "Praetorium" located between Agioi Deka and Gortys, the tombs of Agioi Deka and the old church in the centre of the old village. The name of the village means Ten Saints, referring to the ten Martyrs of Crete (Agathopus, Basilides, Gelasius, Evaristus, Eunician, Euporus, Zoticus, Theodulus, Saturninus, and either Cleomenes or Mobius or Pompeius) who martyred there in 250 AD during the religious persecutions of the Roman emperor Decius. At the site of their martyrdom stands a 12th-century church. Agioi Deka
Prodyut Kumar Deka Asomiya Khabar. Published books on Cinema are "Amar Kotha Teolokor Kotha" (2014) and "Cinema Suwar Ananda" (2017), both anthologies of essays on diverse facets of Indian and foreign films. He wrote his first novel "Ambari", an anthropological thriller, based on the Ambari Archeological site in Guwahati, in 2017. It was published by Delhi based Educreation Publishing. "Prophecy of Ambari", a sequel to the first novel have been published in 2018. Prodyut Kumar Deka was born in Guwahati to film critic, screenwriter and humor writer Pabitra Kumar Deka. He passed his graduation in Commerce in 2000 and completed Law in 2006