Topic
Landscape and Climate
The island's geology, coasts, rivers, forests and climate, and how environmental change and earthquakes affected the people who lived there.
7 entries in 3 sections
Architecture
1 entrySection overview
Environment
4 entriesSection overview
Birds in Ancient CyprusThe birds of ancient Cyprus, known from hunted bones at the earliest sites and from birds modelled, painted and carved in Bronze and Iron Age art.Cyprus Before HumansNeolithicEarly Bronze AgeMiddle Bronze AgeCypro-GeometricCypro-ArchaicCypro-Classical
Climate and Landscape in Ancient CyprusWhat the island's own records show about sea level, coasts, rainfall and forests in Cyprus from the first farmers to the Hellenistic period.NeolithicLate Bronze AgeHellenistic
Earthquakes in Ancient CyprusThe earthquakes proposed for ancient Cyprus, from disputed Bronze Age destructions to the 4th-century CE shocks that left Kourion in ruins.Early Bronze AgeLate Bronze AgeRoman
The Environment of Ancient CyprusSectionThe natural setting of ancient Cyprus, covering its climate, coasts and forests, the earthquakes that struck its towns, and its birds.
Chronology
2 entriesSection overview
Cyprus Before Humans: Dwarf Hippos, Dwarf Elephants and the First VisitorsPleistocene Cyprus, an oceanic island of dwarf hippos, dwarf elephants, a genet and an endemic mouse, and its first human visitors at Akrotiri-Aetokremnos.Cyprus Before Humans
Roman CyprusCyprus as a Roman province from 58 BCE to the fourth century CE, governed from Nea Paphos, mined for copper, and finally wrecked by earthquakes.Roman