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more than 3000 years ago. The opening of the vault and the succeeding operation of study & removal of the finds has been filmed by the Cyprus Television Service under the direction of M. Reno Wideson. Three successive layers of Late Bronze Age settlement have been identified, the second of which towards the end of the XIIIth c. was taken over, probably violently by people from the Aegean caracterised by the so-called "close style pottery". Towards 1200 BC. a grave invasion has brought to a halt the entire Mycenaean town of Enkomi with traces of burning and looting all over the city. A foreign but not yet definitely identified racial element took over the town, built its dwellings among the ruins of the Mycenaean houses and b soon afterwards continued successfully its economic activity. The town indeed enjoyed then a last period of prosperity. Iron weapons & tools now occur among the Bronze Age implements & new styles of pottery, seals, ornaments make their appearance. The latest history of the town of Alasia (XIIth-XIth C. B.C.) comprises three periods, during
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