https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news News from Cypriot archaeology: fieldwork, research, books, museums, events and heritage crime. en Sat, 17 Oct 2026 19:33:00 GMT https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/chlorakas-palloures-chalcolithic-cereals-archaeobotany https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/chlorakas-palloures-chalcolithic-cereals-archaeobotany Sat, 17 Oct 2026 19:33:00 GMT Phytoliths from 25 soil samples at the village north of Paphos point to wheat as its main cereal, though the charred seeds are mostly figs, lentils and pistachio. Research Alexis Drakopoulos A large pale limestone block with a deep round hollow and a second shallower hollow, set in reddish excavated earth, with a scale bar and north arrow https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/ancient-preindustrial-ceramics-from-cyprus-routledge-volume https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/ancient-preindustrial-ceramics-from-cyprus-routledge-volume Sat, 17 Oct 2026 19:30:00 GMT Sixteen studies edited by Sergios Menelaou and Edyta Marzec run from metal-imitating prehistoric pots to the workshops that supplied Ottoman Nicosia. Books Alexis Drakopoulos Painted pottery surface in brown on cream showing a horse pulling a chariot with two riders, a standing robed figure holding scales, a small human figure and a spotted animal https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/arsinoe-cult-ptolemaic-cyprus-papantoniou https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/arsinoe-cult-ptolemaic-cyprus-papantoniou Sat, 17 Oct 2026 19:30:00 GMT Giorgos Papantoniou argues that the cult of Arsinoe II tied Cypriot towns and sanctuaries to Ptolemaic rule, down to a tithe-collector's pots at the Kafizin grotto. Research Alexis Drakopoulos Marble head of a young woman with wavy hair drawn back from the face, the nose and chin chipped, on a white mount labelled S.H. 438, against a black background https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/late-bronze-age-crisis-years-settlement-crops-archaeobotany https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/late-bronze-age-crisis-years-settlement-crops-archaeobotany Sat, 17 Oct 2026 19:29:00 GMT Of 15,134 plant remains from Pyla-Kokkinokremos, 99% came from one rock-cut shaft, which the authors read as an animal-fodder store later given up. Research Alexis Drakopoulos An archaeologist crouches at the bottom of a pale rock-cut pit, cleaning the shoulder of a large clay storage jar set in the soil https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/nea-paphos-fabrika-quarry-chamber-byzantine-church https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/nea-paphos-fabrika-quarry-chamber-byzantine-church Sat, 17 Oct 2026 18:32:00 GMT Chamber 5, one of 15 rock-cut spaces on the hill, was probably abandoned before any burial once the new city wall took Fabrika into the town. Fieldwork Alexis Drakopoulos A long rectangular chamber cut into pale rock, with a flat cut ceiling, blackened walls with shallow recesses, and a cleaned bedrock floor stepping up towards the far end https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/new-cyprus-museum-delayed-to-2028 https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/new-cyprus-museum-delayed-to-2028 Sat, 17 Oct 2026 18:32:00 GMT MPs heard the building had been expected by 3 February 2027; the chair of the House education committee said the public may not get in until 2030. Museums Alexis Drakopoulos Concrete and glass shell of a large building under construction, with an open lower level, scaffolding and trees beyond https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/galinoporni-vasili-textile-wrapped-bronze-hoard https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/galinoporni-vasili-textile-wrapped-bronze-hoard Sat, 17 Oct 2026 18:31:00 GMT Microscopy of mineralised cloth on the 2014 hoard from Vasili hill, in the occupied Karpas, finds 13–15 different tabby fabrics and several kinds of cord. Research Alexis Drakopoulos A steep, pale limestone hill with scrub-covered slopes rising above green fields, with the sea on the horizon behind it https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/hala-sultan-tekke-tomb-plants-flowers-grain-fire https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/hala-sultan-tekke-tomb-plants-flowers-grain-fire Sat, 17 Oct 2026 18:31:00 GMT Jugs in Tomb SS held barley, wheat, marigold and mallow burnt together; two other graves held barley, olive and grape left as food, a study in Levant reports. Research Alexis Drakopoulos Coloured botanical drawing of a tied bunch of plants: ears of barley and wheat with long awns, yellow marigold flowers, a pink mallow flower with broad leaves, and smaller weeds and grasses https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/kourion-latsithkia-unknown-roman-temple https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/kourion-latsithkia-unknown-roman-temple Sat, 17 Oct 2026 18:31:00 GMT Capitals, column bases and an altar recorded on a hill at Latsithkia in 1997 may belong to a temple of the late 1st century CE, four researchers argue. Research Alexis Drakopoulos Limestone columns with capitals standing on a stepped platform, partly rebuilt, with visitors walking among the ruins in front https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/ashmolean-aphrodite-making-of-a-goddess-exhibition https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/ashmolean-aphrodite-making-of-a-goddess-exhibition Sat, 17 Oct 2026 17:30:00 GMT The Oxford exhibition runs from 8 October 2026 to 11 April 2027 and follows the goddess through more than 150 objects, from Cyprus to contemporary art and fashion. Museums Alexis Drakopoulos Terracotta figurine of a woman giving birth, held from behind by one helper while a second kneels in front of her https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/hala-sultan-tekke-wells-pits-tombs-ritual-or-refuse https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/hala-sultan-tekke-wells-pits-tombs-ritual-or-refuse Sat, 17 Oct 2026 17:30:00 GMT Teresa Bürge's study of more than 60 features dug in 2014–2022 finds figurines, seals and imports from Egypt to Sardinia in fills unlike household refuse. Books Alexis Drakopoulos The shallow water of the Larnaca Salt Lake under a blue sky, with scrub and grasses in the foreground and the domed Hala Sultan Tekke mosque among trees on the far shore https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/kition-ship-graffiti-new-additions https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/kition-ship-graffiti-new-additions Sat, 17 Oct 2026 17:30:00 GMT Nine of the 23 additions are rated certain; the authors argue ships were cut into Temple 1 for perhaps 300 years, from about 1200 BCE into the Early Iron Age. Research Alexis Drakopoulos A long wall of large weathered limestone slabs with faint carved marks, a scale bar at its foot and a grassy strip in front, with excavated stone foundations behind https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/tombs-of-the-kings-final-publication-first-volume https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/tombs-of-the-kings-final-publication-first-volume Sat, 17 Oct 2026 17:30:00 GMT Sophocles Hadjisavvas, who began digging the Paphos cemetery in 1977, publishes the 1977–1981 seasons; the Ministry ties Tomb 8 to Ptolemy of Cyprus (80–58 BCE). Books Alexis Drakopoulos A large rectangular block of golden rock left standing in a sunken rock-cut court, with a doorway and niches cut into its sides https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/morphou-metropolis-byzantine-icons-repatriated https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/morphou-metropolis-byzantine-icons-repatriated Sat, 17 Oct 2026 17:29:00 GMT The Evangelists Matthew and Mark, taken from the Metropolis palace in Kyrenia, were traced to the UK and handed back to the Church without payment. Heritage crime Alexis Drakopoulos Two gold-ground icons side by side: on the left a grey-bearded saint in a red cloak holding a closed red book, on the right a dark-bearded saint in a green cloak holding a red book and a pen, Greek inscriptions beside their haloes https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/this-week-in-cypriot-archaeology-2026-w42 https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/this-week-in-cypriot-archaeology-2026-w42 Sat, 17 Oct 2026 17:29:00 GMT Nicosia's Leventis Museum opens an exhibition of 136 coins, CAARI calls for papers for the Swedish Cyprus Expedition centenary, and Malcolm Wiener dies at 91. Museums Alexis Drakopoulos Title card reading This Week in Cypriot Archaeology, 12–18 October 2026, in dark serif type on a cream ground, with a faint outline of Cyprus in the lower right corner https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/this-week-in-cypriot-archaeology-2026-w41 https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/this-week-in-cypriot-archaeology-2026-w41 Sun, 11 Oct 2026 17:00:00 GMT Asinou icons stolen after the 1974 invasion return to Cyprus, the Ashmolean opens its Aphrodite show, and Nicosia museums put coins and Armenian church treasures on view. Museums Alexis Drakopoulos Title card reading This Week in Cypriot Archaeology, 5–11 October 2026, in dark serif type on a cream ground, with a faint outline of Cyprus in the lower right corner https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/this-week-in-cypriot-archaeology-2026-w40 https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/this-week-in-cypriot-archaeology-2026-w40 Sun, 04 Oct 2026 17:00:00 GMT A cloth-wrapped Bronze Age hoard from the Karpas, the first Tombs of the Kings volume, a new Cyprus Museum pushed to 2028 and antiquities shown at the Presidential Palace. Research Alexis Drakopoulos Title card reading This Week in Cypriot Archaeology in dark serif type on a cream ground, with a faint outline of Cyprus in the lower right corner https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/this-week-in-cypriot-archaeology-2026-w39 https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/this-week-in-cypriot-archaeology-2026-w39 Sun, 27 Sep 2026 17:00:00 GMT The Presidential Palace in Nicosia opens its art and antiquities to guided visits, and new Central Prisons at Agios Sozomenos are to be built away from the Bronze Age sites. Museums Alexis Drakopoulos Title card reading This Week in Cypriot Archaeology, 21–27 September 2026, in dark serif type on a cream ground, with a faint outline of Cyprus in the lower right corner https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/this-week-in-cypriot-archaeology-2026-w38 https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/this-week-in-cypriot-archaeology-2026-w38 Sun, 20 Sep 2026 17:00:00 GMT A paper argues for a lost Roman temple near Kourion, police arrest a man with a metal detector at Kouklia, and the 1989 Idalion excavation report goes free online. Research Alexis Drakopoulos Title card reading This Week in Cypriot Archaeology, 14–20 September 2026, in dark serif type on a cream ground, with a faint outline of Cyprus in the lower right corner https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/this-week-in-cypriot-archaeology-2026-w37 https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/this-week-in-cypriot-archaeology-2026-w37 Sun, 13 Sep 2026 17:00:00 GMT Oxford announces an Aphrodite exhibition with loans from Cyprus, a Routledge volume on Cypriot ceramics goes online, and charred plants from Hala Sultan Tekke tombs are published. Books Alexis Drakopoulos Title card reading This Week in Cypriot Archaeology, 7–13 September 2026, in dark serif type on a cream ground, with a faint outline of Cyprus in the lower right corner https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/this-week-in-cypriot-archaeology-2026-w36 https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/this-week-in-cypriot-archaeology-2026-w36 Sun, 06 Sep 2026 17:00:00 GMT A Bronze Age threshold at Erimi carries a senet-type game board, Kourion is to get AI-made 3D scenes, and bad weather cuts power to a Nicosia museum. Fieldwork Alexis Drakopoulos Title card reading This Week in Cypriot Archaeology, 31 August–6 September 2026, in dark serif type on a cream ground, with a faint outline of Cyprus in the lower right corner https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/erimi-laonin-tou-porakou-2026-middle-bronze-age-building https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/erimi-laonin-tou-porakou-2026-middle-bronze-age-building Tue, 01 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT The University of Siena's 2026 season at Erimi-Laonin tou Porakou exposed the full plan of a 250 m² courtyard building and dug three late Middle Bronze Age chamber tombs. Fieldwork Alexis Drakopoulos Aerial view of an excavated hilltop with a grid of low stone walls forming rectangular rooms on pale bedrock, round holes cut into the floors, and excavators at work with buckets and wheelbarrows https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/this-week-in-cypriot-archaeology-2026-w35 https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/this-week-in-cypriot-archaeology-2026-w35 Sun, 30 Aug 2026 17:00:00 GMT The Cyprus Museum objects behind familiar logos and souvenirs, a pottery symposium at the Vounous cemetery, and an opera that closed Paphos Castle for five days. Museums Alexis Drakopoulos Title card reading This Week in Cypriot Archaeology, 24–30 August 2026, in dark serif type on a cream ground, with a faint outline of Cyprus in the lower right corner https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/this-week-in-cypriot-archaeology-2026-w34 https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/this-week-in-cypriot-archaeology-2026-w34 Sun, 23 Aug 2026 17:00:00 GMT Laser scans add 23 possible ships to the temple graffiti at Kition, a group plans to find Cesnola's wrecked Napried, and the odeon of Paphos gets a full-moon evening. Research Alexis Drakopoulos Title card reading This Week in Cypriot Archaeology, 17–23 August 2026, in dark serif type on a cream ground, with a faint outline of Cyprus in the lower right corner https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/this-week-in-cypriot-archaeology-2026-w32 https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/this-week-in-cypriot-archaeology-2026-w32 Sun, 09 Aug 2026 17:00:00 GMT Ian Todd, who led the Vasilikos Valley Project at Kalavasos from 1976, dies; conservation goes on at two Troodos painted churches; a Yale student tests Idalion figurines for Egyptian blue. Research Alexis Drakopoulos Title card reading This Week in Cypriot Archaeology, 3–9 August 2026, in dark serif type on a cream ground, with a faint outline of Cyprus in the lower right corner https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/ian-todd-obituary-vasilikos-valley-project https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/ian-todd-obituary-vasilikos-valley-project Thu, 06 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Todd began the project in 1976 at the Neolithic village of Kalavasos-Tenta and later dug the Late Bronze Age town of Ayios Dhimitrios with Alison South. Research Alexis Drakopoulos A tall white conical shelter on timber and steel legs over excavated stone walls on a grassy hill, with stone steps and a wooden gate in front and a tree to the right https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/this-week-in-cypriot-archaeology-2026-w31 https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/this-week-in-cypriot-archaeology-2026-w31 Sun, 02 Aug 2026 17:00:00 GMT Grape seeds, raw clay and a bull figurine at Late Bronze Age Erimi-Pitharka, a chapter on the war harbour of Kition, and the Kourion museum at Episkopi closes for an upgrade. Fieldwork Alexis Drakopoulos Title card reading This Week in Cypriot Archaeology, 27 July–2 August 2026, in dark serif type on a cream ground, with a faint outline of Cyprus in the lower right corner https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/erimi-pitharka-2026-late-bronze-age-winemaking-weaving https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/erimi-pitharka-2026-late-bronze-age-winemaking-weaving Tue, 28 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMT The April–May dig near Limassol traced more rooms of the building, among them one at least 7 by 4.30 m with benches, a press weight and a deposit of raw clay. Fieldwork Alexis Drakopoulos A river winding through a broad green valley between wooded hills in low evening sun, with a dirt road on the left and a farm building on the right https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/this-week-in-cypriot-archaeology-2026-w30 https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/this-week-in-cypriot-archaeology-2026-w30 Sun, 26 Jul 2026 17:00:00 GMT The Kissonerga-Skalia excavation ends its season, a silver-plated coin of Salamis turns up on a beach at Ashdod, and a Kouklia sarcophagus showing Odysseus draws new attention. Research Alexis Drakopoulos Title card reading This Week in Cypriot Archaeology in dark serif type on a cream ground, with Week 30 · 2026 in small red capitals above and a faint outline of Cyprus at the lower right https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/kissonerga-skalia-early-middle-bronze-age-settlement-2026 https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/kissonerga-skalia-early-middle-bronze-age-settlement-2026 Sat, 25 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMT Lindy Crewe's CAARI team closed its season at the village north of Paphos, where a 4 m oven yielded charred wheat and terebinth in 2025. Fieldwork Alexis Drakopoulos A broad shallow hollow lined with pale hardened plaster, cut into the excavated ground, with round pits around its rim and a row of flat stones along the front https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/nea-paphos-teeth-diet-hellenistic-roman https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/nea-paphos-teeth-diet-hellenistic-roman Wed, 22 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMT A study of two cemeteries finds more dental disease among the dead of Ktima, the upper town, than in the Eastern Necropolis outside the walls of the ancient city. Research Alexis Drakopoulos Looking down into a square court cut into pale rock, ringed by plain stone columns, with dark doorways to burial chambers behind them https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/this-week-in-cypriot-archaeology-2026-w29 https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/this-week-in-cypriot-archaeology-2026-w29 Sun, 19 Jul 2026 17:00:00 GMT The Department of Antiquities seeks eight archaeologists to digitise Cyprus Museum finds and rules out a contemporary art museum in its building; a Cornell student digs at Maroni. Museums Alexis Drakopoulos Title card reading This Week in Cypriot Archaeology, 13–19 July 2026, in dark serif type on a cream ground, with a faint outline of Cyprus in the lower right corner https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/this-week-in-cypriot-archaeology-2026-w28 https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/this-week-in-cypriot-archaeology-2026-w28 Sun, 12 Jul 2026 17:00:00 GMT The Kourion museum at Episkopi will close from 1 August for upgrade works, and the Department of Antiquities mourns its former chief foreman, the stonemason Andreas Kallis. Museums Alexis Drakopoulos Title card reading Week 28, 2026 and This Week in Cypriot Archaeology in dark serif type on a cream ground, with a faint outline of Cyprus in the lower right corner https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/this-week-in-cypriot-archaeology-2026-w27 https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/this-week-in-cypriot-archaeology-2026-w27 Sun, 05 Jul 2026 17:00:00 GMT A Late Bronze Age juglet withdrawn from a British online sale is handed back to Cyprus, and the Department of Antiquities lists its stolen antiquities in UNESCO's Virtual Museum. Heritage crime Alexis Drakopoulos Title card reading This Week in Cypriot Archaeology, 29 June–5 July 2026, in dark serif type on a cream ground, with a faint outline of Cyprus in the lower right corner https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/cypriot-antiquities-returned-from-online-auctions-2026 https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/cypriot-antiquities-returned-from-online-auctions-2026 Wed, 01 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMT The objects came back in eight handovers in France, Britain, the United States and Canada between December 2025 and June 2026, six of them after auction houses withdrew the lots. Heritage crime Alexis Drakopoulos Pale terracotta model of four horses standing side by side, a wheel at one side and, behind the horses, a round shield and pointed helmets, on a white background https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/this-week-in-cypriot-archaeology-2026-w26 https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/this-week-in-cypriot-archaeology-2026-w26 Sun, 28 Jun 2026 17:00:00 GMT A clay four-horse chariot of about 600 BCE, found in a French online sale, is returned to Cyprus, and a French mission ends its season on the walls of Nea Paphos. Heritage crime Alexis Drakopoulos Title card reading This Week in Cypriot Archaeology, 22–28 June 2026, in dark serif type on a cream ground, with a faint outline of Cyprus in the lower right corner https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/this-week-in-cypriot-archaeology-2026-w24 https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/this-week-in-cypriot-archaeology-2026-w24 Sun, 14 Jun 2026 17:00:00 GMT A Black Polished bowl of about 1900 BCE, spotted in an online auction in May 2025, was handed to the Cyprus High Commission in Ottawa after a year of police and justice work. Heritage crime Alexis Drakopoulos Title card reading This Week in Cypriot Archaeology, 8–14 June 2026, in dark serif type on a cream ground, with a faint outline of Cyprus in the lower right corner https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/this-week-in-cypriot-archaeology-2026-w23 https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/this-week-in-cypriot-archaeology-2026-w23 Sun, 07 Jun 2026 17:00:00 GMT Greece hands back 48 Cypriot antiquities from a late ambassador's collection, and Cypriot pots meet Picasso's ceramics in a Barcelona exhibition. Museums Alexis Drakopoulos Title card reading This Week in Cypriot Archaeology, 1–7 June 2026, in dark serif type on a cream ground, with a faint outline of Cyprus in the lower right corner https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/greece-returns-48-cypriot-antiquities-zacharakis https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/greece-returns-48-cypriot-antiquities-zacharakis Tue, 02 Jun 2026 09:00:00 GMT Pottery and limestone figurines from the Early Bronze Age to the medieval period, given up by the heirs of Christos Zacharakis, were handed over at the Cyprus Museum on 1 June. Heritage crime Alexis Drakopoulos About fifty painted clay jugs, bowls, flasks and juglets of many shapes, with two small limestone pieces, set out on a white-covered table and green display blocks in a museum room https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/this-week-in-cypriot-archaeology-2026-w22 https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/this-week-in-cypriot-archaeology-2026-w22 Sun, 31 May 2026 17:00:00 GMT A Late Roman wall 2 m thick on the Amathus acropolis, the first volume of the final report on the Tombs of the Kings at Paphos, and a tour of the new Cyprus Museum site. Fieldwork Alexis Drakopoulos Title card reading This Week in Cypriot Archaeology, 25–31 May 2026, in dark serif type on a cream ground, with a faint outline of Cyprus in the lower right corner https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/amathous-acropolis-west-terrace-second-season https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/amathous-acropolis-west-terrace-second-season Fri, 29 May 2026 09:00:00 GMT Fallen roof tiles covered a tiled floor east of the wall, and a trench above an Archaic fortification yielded Iron Age figurines and pottery. Fieldwork Alexis Drakopoulos A grassy hillside sloping down towards the sea, with a small team at work in a shallow excavation partway down and a road and buildings along the shore beyond https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/this-week-in-cypriot-archaeology-2026-w21 https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/this-week-in-cypriot-archaeology-2026-w21 Sun, 24 May 2026 17:00:00 GMT More than 20 statue bases found in place at the Apollo sanctuary of Frangissa, and Bronze Age pigeons at Hala Sultan Tekke that ate much like the people around them. Research Alexis Drakopoulos Title card reading This Week in Cypriot Archaeology, 18–24 May 2026, in dark serif type on a cream ground, with a faint outline of Cyprus in the lower right corner https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/frangissa-apollo-sanctuary-statue-bases-pera-orinis https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/frangissa-apollo-sanctuary-statue-bases-pera-orinis Fri, 22 May 2026 09:00:00 GMT Terracotta feet on some of the limestone bases are the first sign in Cyprus that clay figures were given stone pedestals, the Department of Antiquities said. Fieldwork Alexis Drakopoulos Aerial view of an excavation on a dry slope: stone walls, trenches and a dense cluster of squared limestone blocks, with a dirt track at the top left https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/hala-sultan-tekke-pigeons-rock-doves https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/hala-sultan-tekke-pigeons-rock-doves Thu, 21 May 2026 09:00:00 GMT Bones of at least 55 rock doves from the harbour town on the Larnaca Salt Lake carry nitrogen values close to those of people, a paper in Antiquity reports. Research Alexis Drakopoulos Pale limestone sculpture of a pigeon lying down, seen from the side, its folded wing feathers carved in long overlapping strips and its neck covered in fine scored lines, on a grey background https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/this-week-in-cypriot-archaeology-2026-w20 https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/this-week-in-cypriot-archaeology-2026-w20 Sun, 17 May 2026 17:00:00 GMT Ten rock-cut Chalcolithic tombs at Makounta near Polis, copper slag heaps and magnetometry at Pyrga, and a review of Bernard Knapp's book on Cyprus and Ugarit. Fieldwork Alexis Drakopoulos Title card reading This Week in Cypriot Archaeology, Week 20, 2026, in dark serif type on a cream ground, with a faint outline of Cyprus in the lower right corner https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/makounta-voules-mersinoudia-chalcolithic-cemetery https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/makounta-voules-mersinoudia-chalcolithic-cemetery Mon, 11 May 2026 09:00:00 GMT Only two of the graves at Makounta-Voules/Mersinoudia still held objects: beads of shell, picrolite, faience and quartz in one, copper spirals and wire in the other. Fieldwork Alexis Drakopoulos Two round shafts cut into pale grey bedrock on a hilltop, one deep and dark, with a red and white ranging pole laid between them and pine scrub behind https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/this-week-in-cypriot-archaeology-2026-w18 https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/this-week-in-cypriot-archaeology-2026-w18 Sun, 03 May 2026 17:00:00 GMT The National Guard towed Kyrenia II, the sailing replica of the Kyrenia ship, and a play drawn from the Swedish Cyprus Expedition's archive was staged in Stockholm. Events Alexis Drakopoulos Title card reading This Week in Cypriot Archaeology, 27 April–3 May 2026, in dark serif type on a cream ground, with a faint outline of Cyprus in the lower right corner https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/this-week-in-cypriot-archaeology-2026-w16 https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/this-week-in-cypriot-archaeology-2026-w16 Sun, 19 Apr 2026 17:00:00 GMT The Idol of Pomos, the Chalcolithic picrolite figure on Cyprus's 1- and 2-euro coins, wears a small copy of itself at its neck. It is on show in the Cyprus Museum. Museums Alexis Drakopoulos Title card reading Week 16, 2026 and This Week in Cypriot Archaeology in dark serif type on a cream ground, with a faint outline of Cyprus in the lower right corner https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/this-week-in-cypriot-archaeology-2026-w15 https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/this-week-in-cypriot-archaeology-2026-w15 Sun, 12 Apr 2026 17:00:00 GMT Geologist Giorgos Konstantinou, who studied how Cyprus's copper ores were mined in antiquity, has died; volunteers photograph 25 museums in the occupied north for Wikimedia. Research Alexis Drakopoulos Title card reading This Week in Cypriot Archaeology, 6–12 April 2026, in dark serif type on a cream ground, with a faint outline of Cyprus in the lower right corner https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/this-week-in-cypriot-archaeology-2026-w14 https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/this-week-in-cypriot-archaeology-2026-w14 Sun, 05 Apr 2026 17:00:00 GMT A Cypro-Archaic jug withdrawn from a US online auction comes home, and the Department of Antiquities answers for the new museum's delay and sets out its display plan. Museums Alexis Drakopoulos Title card reading This Week in Cypriot Archaeology, week 14 of 2026, 30 March to 5 April, in dark serif type on a cream ground, with a faint outline of Cyprus in the lower right corner