Keros

The Archaeological Collection of Koufonissi, housed near the island's port, presents a selection of fascinating finds from excavations carried out by the British School at Athens and the University of Cambridge for more than a decade on the nearby islet of Daskalio, once a promontory of Keros, where they discovered the remains of Early Cycladic (3,200-2,100 BC) settlements.

An uninhabited, seemingly drab landmass some 10 kilometers from the holiday island of Naxos in the Aegean, has yielded 4,600-year-old structures that provide evidence of ancient Greece's early history being far more complex than experts once believed.

The Culture Ministry Thursday announced the discovery of an "exceptionally important" Early Bronze Age settlement on the islet of Daskalio off the coast of Keros in the Cyclades group of islands during the Keros-Naxos Seaways research program - a four-year project being conducted by the British School at Athens and the University of Cambridge and directed by Colin Renfrew and Michael Boyd.

Excavations next to the uninhabited Greek islet of Keros, already identified as the enigmatic hub of a forgotten religion, have now revealed traces of intense industrial activity more than 4,500 years ago.

Archaeologists digging on the remote Cycladic island of Keros in the central Aegean have revealed "unusually sophisticated prehistoric monuments," according to a press release from Cambridge University's Department of Archaeology.