Keros: Bronze Age Mystery

The Ancients

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🗓️ 23 November 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

While a small, uninhabited island today, Keros held significant importance during the Bronze Age. As a crucial centre for cultural practices, trade, and unique rituals nearly 5,000 years ago, it's difficult to imagine that such a tiny, wild space was once a bustling hub of civilisation. So how was this mystical past discovered - and more importantly, by who?

In this episode, Tristan welcomes historian and broadcaster Professor Michael Scott to the podcast to discuss the pivotal role Keros played not only in ancient times, but also in the narrative of modern archaeology. Exploring how the island suffered from looters, the extensive efforts archaeologists undergo today to excavate it, and why Keros stands as an integral part of the Cyclades - why is Bronze Age Keros so crucial, and what treasures have been unearthed there?

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1:31.0	episode we're talking about a culture that lived almost 5,000 years ago in the early Bronze
1:36.7	Age in the Central Mediterranean off the mainland of Greece on what is today an uninhabited island, a mystery culture that was once a great center of the early Bronze Age.
1:51.0	This island is the island of Keros and the discovery that here almost 5,000 years ago
1:58.8	you had a great center, a prominent center of the early Bronze Age where that discovery was made
2:05.2	only roughly 50 years ago and archaeological research has been going on ever
2:09.7	since. The story of it is incredible and deserves to be better known and talk through what we
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