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submitted by Odyssey Magazine on 31.01.2012

The Kythera Adventure. November/December 2011 ODYSSEY pp. 18-19



Photograph - Shot in the dark: two pistols, one encrusted with fragments of wine bottles, were among recovered items.

In 1802, one of the ships charted by Lord Elgin to transport the Parthenon Marbles to England sank off the coast of the southern Peloponnese. Most of its cargo was recovered but a Greek Australian foundation and the Hellenic Ministry of Culture have joined in a new salvage mission ...

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submitted by George Vardas on 02.06.2008

MINOAN CIVILISATION ON KYTHERA: THE PEAK SANCTUARY OF AGIOS GEORGIOS STO VOUNO

It was a typically hot August day on Kythera. In the picturesque fishing village of Avlemonas below, locals must have been intrigued at the sight of a tourist walking up the gravel and rocky slopes leading to Agios Georgios sto vouno, the white washed chapel located on the hilltop above and, at 350 metres above sea level, the highest point on the island.

But in August 1991, something exciting was about to happen to the newspaper editor and amateur archaeologist, Adonis Kyrou. As ...