The "Keros Hoard": Myth or Reality? Searching for the Lost Pieces of a Puzzle

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Peggy Sotirakopoulou Keros, a small, now-deserted island in the southeast Cyclades, became well known in the 1950s and early 1960s after a series of clandestine excavations―concentrated on the site of Kavos―took place. These lootings resulted in the illegal export from Greece of a large number of Early Cycladic objects that flooded the international antiquities market under the general name the "Keros Hoard." The cache was said to have included at least 350 objects, now widely dispersed. This study features a…