In 2007, a team of Belgian archaeologists–led by Jan Driessen, general director, and Ilse Schoep, codirector–started digging on Kephali Hill near the village of Sissi, where they have found a Minoan settlement located two and a half miles east of Malia. The team, many members of which also previously dug at Malia, is hoping the excavations will shed light on how Minoan society was structured. The archaeologists believe the site was significant because it guarded the entrance to East Crete.

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The site is in dire need of documentation, excavation, and protection from the natural elements, including the sea and its winds, which have already caused extensive erosion of the cemetery. Here, a human bone protrudes from the surface of the soil.

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