Archaeology magazine feature article by Mark Rose on the looting of frescoes, mosaics and icons from churches in Northern Cyprus.
Provides information such as bibliographies, sources of funding, centers of study, lists of collections and access arrangements, scholar and project contact details, bulletins on excavations and projects, and excavation reports related to Cyprus.
Article on the Aceramic Period of Khirokitia dated to the sixth millennium BCE. The settlement displays cosmopolitan contacts with adjacent Palaeolithic societies in the Mediterranean.
Focuses on the use of recent ethnographic information to develop middle-range theories for interpreting and explaining past human behavior and organization in Cyprus using pottery making.
Pictures and descriptions of archaeological and historical sites on Cyprus.
Mailing list on the archaeology and history of Cyprus from earliest times to 1900CE. Open to archaeologists, historians, and interested members of the public.
From Backdirt, Aegean influences on Cypriot architecture toward the end of the Late Bronze Age, 13th century bce.
From the Cyprus Mail, Cyprus has filed a civil suit in a German court to retrieve antiquities stolen after the Turkish invasion and retrieved by the Bavarian authorities, which have withheld them since.
From BBC, oldest known evidence of people keeping cats as pets may have been discovered by archaeologists.
Study of ancient copper production on Cyprus. The project is a joint-venture between the Archaeometallurgical Project of Agia Varvara-Almyras in Cyprus, the Swiss National Foundation for Scientific Research and the Federal Laboratories for Materials Testing and Research. Site also available in German.
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