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The investigation of past cultures of the modern nationstate of Cyprus through the study and scientific analysis of material remains (i.e., osteological, artifactual, architectural, etc.).

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• Hellenistic
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• Paphos
• Roman

Resources in This Category

• Aceramic Period Cyprus

  http://www.aai.freeservers.com/cyprus_in_the_aceramic_period.htm
  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.

• Agia Napa Monastery

  http://www.agianapa.org.cy/(S(uk1k3zy0km5lv4jbiia5pyrb))/AyiaNapa/StaticPage2.aspx?pagenb=19636
  Photographs and information on this ancient Christian site.

• Agia Varvara-Almyras Research Project

  http://home.datacomm.ch/almyras/
  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.

• Ancient Cyprus

  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ancientcyprus/
  Mailing list on the archaeology and history of Cyprus from earliest times to 1900CE. Open to archaeologists, historians, and interested members of the public.

• Art Theft from Cyprus to Munich

  http://archive.archaeology.org/online/features/cyprus/
  Archaeology magazine feature article by Mark Rose on the looting of frescoes, mosaics and icons from churches in Northern Cyprus.

• BBC: Bronze Age Perfume Discovered

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4364469.stm
  Italian archaeologists in Cyprus say they have found the site of an ancient perfume factory from the Bronze Age.

• Cyprus Archaeology

  http://www.cyprus-archaeology.org.uk/
  Site devoted to Cyprus and Cypriot Archaeology. Lists of sites, periods, projects, and museums.

• Excavations at Politiko Phorades

  http://www.scsp.arts.gla.ac.uk/Phorades/index.htm
  A Late Bronze Age Cypriot copper mining site, the excavation is part of the Sydney Cyprus Survey Project investigating ancient mining and landscape archaeology in Cyprus.

• Life in Cyprus: Archaeology

  http://www.cyprustourism.org/life/archaeology.html
  Tourist guide and map to archaeological sites in Cyprus.

• Sydney Cyprus Survey Project

  http://www.scsp.arts.gla.ac.uk/
  An interdisciplinary regional survey project in the Northern Troodos foothills, Central Cyprus, by the Department of Archaeology, University of Glasgow.

• The Cyprus Treasure

  http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/project/Treasure/Treasure_Eng/index.html
  An evolving electronic library of historic monuments of ancient and Byzantine Cyprus.

• The Earliest Prehistory of Cyprus

  http://www.bu.edu/asor/pubs/books-monographs/swiny.pdf
  A number of scientific articles provided by the American Schools of Oriental Research.

• Yeronisos Island Expedition

  http://www.nyu.edu/projects/yeronisos/
  Archaeological expedition on the island of Yeronisos, off the coast of Cyprus, undertaken by Professor Joan Breton Connelly and the Yeronisos Island Expedition for New York University.

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