Keros
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Keros, in the Bible, family that returned from Babylon.
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Keros (Κέρος) is an uninhabited Greek island in the Cyclades about southeast of Naxos. Administratively it is part of the community of Koufonisi. It has an area of and its highest point is . It was an important site to the Cycladic civilization that flourished around 2500 BC.
Keros is especially noted for the flat-faced marble statues which later inspired the work of Pablo Picasso and Henry Moore.
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