Where is Ithica?

Homer calls Odysseus “King of the Ithacans.” But there are no Mycenaean ruins on modern-day Ithaki. Why? At other places Homer writes about in the Iliad and the Odyssey, like Mycenae and Pylos, archeologists have found the remains of powerful cities. More than 150 years of excavations on the island of Ithaki have yielded nothing. Perhaps that’s because they were looking in the wrong place.