SurveyOccupied north after 1974

Livadhia: Foulias's exploration of the channel system under Panagia tis Kyras

Name: Livadhia: Foulias's exploration of the channel system under Panagia tis Kyras
Start: 2003
End: 2009

2003–2009 · Livadhia (Karpas)

Andreas Foulias's entries in 2003 and 2009 into a channel system about six metres deep beneath the church of Panagia tis Kyras at Livadhia, in the Karpas.

This fieldwork took place after the Turkish invasion of 1974, in the north of Cyprus, which Turkey has occupied since then. It was carried out without the permission of the Republic of Cyprus, the island's only recognised state, whose Department of Antiquities does not recognise permits issued in the occupied areas.

Map of Cyprus

Where the work took place

Ground above 200, 500, 1,000 m

Site

1Livadhia (Karpas) (approx.)

Modern coastline (OpenStreetMap) and relief (Copernicus DEM).

The project

In 2003 and again in 2009 Andreas Foulias entered a channel system, described as six metres deep, beneath the church of Panagia tis Kyras at Livadhia¹. Lâtife Summerer treats the work as an example of undercover research in northern Cyprus, in the area occupied by Turkey since the invasion of 1974, and describes it as unauthorized¹. She reports that the results were published in 2016 in an article titled "Nėa stoicheia gia ton nao tis Panagias tis Kyras sta Leivadia Ammochostou" ("New Data from the Church Panagia tis Kyras at Livadia, Famagusta")¹.

Directors and team

Directed by

Andreas Foulias2003–2009

References

1.Lâtife Summerer, 2023, In Fear of Blacklisting. How the Division Shaped Archaeology in Cyprus, New Approaches toward Recording, Preserving and Studying Cultural Heritage in Divided Cyprus.