Ancient CyprusAncient Cyprus

The excavations register

Excavations in Cyprus

Excavations, rescue digs, soundings and surveys carried out in Cyprus from the nineteenth century to today. Each project page gives the sites, the years of work, the directors and team, the institutions that sponsored it, what was found, and the reports in which the work was published.

Projects
706
Sites
580
Ongoing
30
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Who ran the work

  • Filled: the site's own position
  • Hollow: approximate, shown at the village centre
  • 4beside a mark: projects at that site
  • Ring: nearby sites grouped (zoom in to separate them), coloured by who ran the work

705 projects in view

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Projects started in each decade

Counted by the year of the first season, and by who ran the work. Choose a decade to see it on the map.

  • Ottoman-era and private
  • British colonial and British Museum
  • Swedish Cyprus Expedition
  • Department of Antiquities
  • Foreign missions
  • Cypriot universities
  • Occupied north after 1974
  • Not recorded
Projects started in each decadeCounted by the year of the first season, and by who ran the work. Choose a decade to see it on the map. The table below the chart gives every number.0501001501800s, Ottoman-era and private: 1 project1800s1820s1840s, Ottoman-era and private: 1 project1840s1850s, Ottoman-era and private: 1 project1860s, Ottoman-era and private: 14 projects1860s1870s, Ottoman-era and private: 7 projects1870s, British colonial and British Museum: 2 projects1880s, Ottoman-era and private: 17 projects1880s, British colonial and British Museum: 23 projects1880s, Foreign missions: 3 projects1880s1890s, Ottoman-era and private: 2 projects1890s, British colonial and British Museum: 14 projects1890s, Foreign missions: 1 project1900s, British colonial and British Museum: 2 projects1900s1910s, British colonial and British Museum: 9 projects1910s, Foreign missions: 3 projects1920s, British colonial and British Museum: 5 projects1920s, Swedish Cyprus Expedition: 15 projects1920s, Foreign missions: 3 projects1920s1930s, British colonial and British Museum: 9 projects1930s, Swedish Cyprus Expedition: 5 projects1930s, Department of Antiquities: 9 projects1930s, Foreign missions: 5 projects1940s, British colonial and British Museum: 2 projects1940s, Department of Antiquities: 7 projects1940s, Foreign missions: 2 projects1940s1950s, British colonial and British Museum: 2 projects1950s, Department of Antiquities: 60 projects1950s, Foreign missions: 8 projects1950s, Not recorded: 1 project1960s, Department of Antiquities: 102 projects1960s, Foreign missions: 16 projects1181960s1970s, Department of Antiquities: 40 projects1970s, Foreign missions: 40 projects1980s, Department of Antiquities: 40 projects1980s, Foreign missions: 24 projects1980s, Occupied north after 1974: 2 projects1980s1990s, Department of Antiquities: 25 projects1990s, Foreign missions: 31 projects1990s, Occupied north after 1974: 3 projects2000s, Department of Antiquities: 38 projects2000s, Foreign missions: 27 projects2000s, Cypriot universities: 4 projects2000s, Occupied north after 1974: 4 projects2000s2010s, Department of Antiquities: 14 projects2010s, Foreign missions: 16 projects2010s, Cypriot universities: 5 projects2010s, Occupied north after 1974: 2 projects2010s, Not recorded: 1 project2020s, Department of Antiquities: 2 projects2020s, Foreign missions: 7 projects2020s, Cypriot universities: 1 project2020s, Occupied north after 1974: 2 projects2020s, Not recorded: 2 projects2020s
Show the numbers
Projects started in each decade: projects active per decade, by group
DecadeOttoman-era and privateBritish colonial and British MuseumSwedish Cyprus ExpeditionDepartment of AntiquitiesForeign missionsCypriot universitiesOccupied north after 1974Not recordedAll
1800s100000001
1810s000000000
1820s000000000
1830s000000000
1840s100000001
1850s100000001
1860s14000000014
1870s720000009
1880s172300300043
1890s21400100017
1900s020000002
1910s0900300012
1920s05150300023
1930s0959500028
1940s0207200011
1950s02060800171
1960s00010216000118
1970s000404000080
1980s000402402066
1990s000253103059
2000s000382744073
2010s000141652138
2020s0002712214