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encountered[written sideways: engaged in Copper mining | trade and piracy. | x Seale 3. XII. 59. Paris \conducted by Prof. C.F.A, M. of the Acad. of Inscriptns,/ The French Arch. Exped. to Enkomi- Alasia has just completed its XIIth season of Excavations at Enkomi near Famagousta, the site of the IInd Mill. Old Bronze Age Capital of Cyprus. More buildings of the XIV-XIIIth B. C. were brought to light along the south - north main road of the city, under which hnumerous tombs were hewn in the underlying chalk rock dating from the Middle Bronze Age period (2000-1750 B C) have been were but had all<s> have been entirely/ (found. All looted in ancient or modern times when the site has been the theatre of disorderly diggings considered as the richest Bronze Age necropoles of the island Ills. The site city dated occupied since occupied since the XIVth c. ] by a predominant and prosperous Mycenaean dynasty port population, the city was destroyed towards 1200 B.C. by the invasion of still mysterious enigmatic seafarers who settled in the island and made it its their base for further conquests along the neighbouring Syrian coast and as far south as Egypt. From On this still obscure period of our<s>/ Eastern Mediterr. History some the new some light was thrown by several discoveries made during this year excav. at Enk. this year among which engraved inscribed scarabs and, inscribed terra cotta balls, and cult objects and as well as the seated figure, of a male god holding a chalice in br in in bronze. The excavat. of the sanctuary of the moongod dedicated to the cult of fertility discovered during the 1958 excavations was also completed and further idols Among the finds was a moon crescent cut in yellow chalk which
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