Cyprus

Ayia Irini–Paleokastro is one of the most significant Late Bronze Age (LC I, ca. 1650–1430 BC) funerary landscapes in Cyprus and a key site for understanding the emergence of early urban societies and their Mediterranean connections. Located in Morphou...

The settlement site of the Hill of Agios Georgios is located in the heart of the modern capital Lefkosia (Nicosia) (35° 09′ 58.8′′ N and 33° 21′ 18.9′′ E). Its discovery was the result of the first large scale and systematic exploration conducted within...

Anne E. Dunn-Vaturi, 2004 In 1942, the Department of Antiquities, carried out a number of trial excavations in the locality of Aletri west of the Ambelikou mine shafts, in the northern foothills of the Trodoos Massif. The most important evidence revealed...

Sturt W. Manning, 2003 Maroni Tsaroukkas (and associated toponyms Aspres, Kapsaloudhia and Vournes) is one of the set of large Late Cypriot coastal sites-polities that emerge on Cyprus in the Late Cypriot I-IIC periods, c.1650-1200BC. It is a c.35ha total...

David W. Rupp, 2004 Near the southeastern end of the akropolis of the Early Hellenistic through Early Byzantine city of Kourion, on the south coast of Cyprus, a monumental peristyle courtyard complex with associated bath suite was built in the late 360s A...

The city of Idalion, Cyprus, was one of the most important cities in the ancient eastern Mediterranean. This center of commerce was founded at the end of the Late Bronze Age, in the 13th century BC, and continued to thrive for more than a thousand years...

Maroni Tsaroukkas (and associated toponyms Aspres, Kapsaloudhia and Vournes) is one of the set of large Late Cypriot coastal sites-polities that emerge on Cyprus in the Late Cypriot I-IIC periods, c.1650-1200BC. It is a c.35ha total site. Various elite...

Khirokitia settlement is located within about 6 km of the actual southern coastline of the island. It has been inscribed since 1998 on UNESCO's World Heritage List. The site was discovered and investigated between 1936 and 1946 by P. Dikaios (Department...

PUBLISHED 2016. Please visit the publication's webpage. The most important cemetery of Kouklia/ancient Palaepaphos during the Cypro-Geometric period (c. 1050 - 750 B.C.) is the Skales cemetery southeast of the settlement site. A systematic excavation of...