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or landside town wall of the Bronze Age & early Iron Age town supposed to have been Alasia, the second millenium capital city of Cyprus. This purpose was achieved. The junction of the western town wall with the southern wall sections formerly explored by the same expedition and the northern wall, the central part of which has been excavated by the Department of Antiquities expedition under Dr. Dikaios, was found.
The town wall is now traced along its entire length, more than about 1200 yards. With its southern and northern extremities abutting the escarpment it enclosed a densely built city of a size equal to that of present Kyrenia (pop. 7.000). and populated b Its population may have been between 5.000 and 10.000 people.
The wall, is a cyclopean structure of astonishing size and strength, and is well preserved practically along its entire perimeter. It consists of an outer facing of huge stones some measuring nearly 4 yards long and 1 1/2 yard in thickness & height and weighing more than 60 tons. The [illegible] quarrying and transport of such blocks represents a remarkable technical achievement considering that it was done more than 3000 years ago.
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