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Museum in collaboration with the University of Sydney hopes to carry out further excavations on this site before the end of the year.
Hellenistic
Mr. T. Bruce Mitford of the University of St. Andrews in association with the Department of Antiquities has found inscribed fragments of bowls dating to the third century B. C. in a cave shrine on Kaphisin hill near Nicosia.
Early Christian
The Department has cleared in part in the town site on Cape Drepanum a large Basilican Church with three aisles, three apses, an atrium, and an annex to the north which may prove to be a baptistery. Fragments of a mosaic floor in the nave are dated to the 6th century.
Medieval
At Pamagusta the Department removed in the Ravelin the Turkish filling from the central part of the great horse shoe gallery. This has revealed the extent of the damage due to Turkish mining operations during the siege of 1571, and explains the filling of the gallery and the reconstruction of the main wall of this bulwark over the filling. The removal of the filling from the remaining sections of the vaulting of the great five-bayed, Frankish undercroft on the north side of the Citadel, a filling which the Venetians placed on top
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