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Printed: MINISTRY / OF / FOREIGN AFFAIRS
Printed: LIBERTY·EQUALITY·FRATERNITY / FRENCH REPUBLIC
Printed: PARIS, LE
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In my communication of last summer I informed the Academy of the discovery by the Archaeological Mission French of the Mycenaean and pre-Hellenic town of Enkomi to which the well-known cemetery of the same name is attached.
Situated north of Famagusta, at the same latitude as the Greek Salamis, mais but a little further inland of the lands, this important site had been sought without success by two foreign missions. It is today localised geographically and in time. We have been able to identify in depth five very clearly marked levels corresponding to as many urban installations which succeeded one another here in the course of the III° and II° millennia. [handwritten: illegible, margin] The periods of prosperity coincide with the Middle Egyptian Empire of the XX° or XVIII° c., then after a period of distress that afflicted the whole island with the period of the New Egyptian Empire, i.e. from the XVI° c. to the XIII° century before our era.
This second period of prosperity had been interrupted around 1260 by a severe earthquake of which the ravages are still visible, among the ruins cleared by us. The catastrophe was followed by intense activity of reconstruction and repair which attests the vitality of the city, which then prospered until the end of the XIII° century. It finally succumbed in the course of the great upheaval which marks the end of the Bronze civilisation a little before 1200. The economic role of the city as exporter of copper
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