The communication focuses on the 2013 excavation period of the research, a continuation of that of the late Professor Yannis Sakellarakis (1992-1994) and aims to complete and enrich the picture of the Minoan presence on the island of Kythera, whose key geographical position played a prominent role in cultural contacts already from prehistoric times.
The Minoan summit sanctuary at Agios Georgios in Mount Kythera was discovered in the early 1990s by the late Yannis Sakellarakis. Its discovery certified, in an undeniable way, the religious influence of the Minoans outside Crete, a result or manifestation, if not of possible political suzerainty, at least of their ideological supremacy in the Aegean area, at the beginning of the YMI period (1600-1430 BC), when the sanctuary's heyday phase is placed.
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