The civilizations in the inner Cyclades islands, in southern Greece, on Crete, Cyprus, and in Egypt all cross fertilized and traded with one another, which is why one finds syncretistic statues in Greece with the head of a Kore (boy) and the body of an Egyptian sphinx. Here is a helpful map and description of what was going on from at least 1700 B.C. in this region….
As we shall see later in these posts, the Minoan civilization on Crete was very influential on the Greek islands, involving actual migration to islands like Santorini, as we shall learn when we visit the Akrotiri archaeological site on that volcanic island. Here is some of the booty from Mycenae and the islands which reflect the influence……
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