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Excavation seasons, surveys and rescue work in Cyprus.
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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.
Source: Department of Antiquities, Cyprus: Completion of the excavation by the French Archaeological Mission of Avignon University on Fabrika Hill in Kato Pafos
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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.
Source: Department of Antiquities, Cyprus: Completion of the 2026 fieldwork and research activities at Erimi–Laonin tou Porakou
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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.
Source: Deputy Ministry of Culture, Department of Antiquities, Cyprus: Completion of the 2026 fieldwork and research activities at Erimi–Laonin tou Porakou
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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.
Source: Deputy Ministry of Culture: Completion of the 2026 fieldwork season at the Late Bronze Age site of Erimi–Pitharka
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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.
Source: Deputy Ministry of Culture: Completion of the 2026 fieldwork season at the Late Bronze Age site of Erimi–Pitharka
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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.
Source: Cyprus Mail: Excavations at Kissonerga uncover one of Cyprus' oldest Bronze Age settlements
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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.
Source: Deputy Ministry of Culture: Completion of the second excavation season of the west terrace of the Acropolis of Amathous
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Fallen roof tiles covered a tiled floor east of the wall, and a trench above an Archaic fortification yielded Iron Age figurines and pottery.
Source: Deputy Ministry of Culture, Department of Antiquities: Completion of the second excavation season of the west terrace of the Acropolis of Amathous
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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.
Source: Deputy Ministry of Culture: Completion of the archaeological excavation campaign at the Sanctuary of Apollo at Frangissa, in Pera Oreinis Community
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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.
Source: Deputy Ministry of Culture: Completion of the excavation by the North Carolina State University at Makounta–Voules/Mersinoudia
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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.
Source: Department of Antiquities, Completion of the excavation by the North Carolina State University at Makounta–Voules/Mersinoudia
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The Warsaw–Kraków team at Nea Paphos reports its 2025 season: crucibles for melting metal at Maloutena and a previously unknown colonnade in the agora.
Source: University of Warsaw: The latest excavation season at ancient Nea Paphos
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A stone-knapping floor at Drouseia-Skloinikia in the Akamas, a wall at Nea Paphos dated by a Rhodian amphora stamp, and a Bichrome kylix handed back in London.
Source: Department of Antiquities: Completion of the archaeological excavation at the site of Drouseia-Skloinikia in the Akamas Peninsula
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The October 2025 season at Drouseia-Skloinikia also yielded beads and worked bone and shell, and divers began surveying a reef that was dry land when the site was in use.
Source: Department of Antiquities: Completion of the archaeological excavation at the site of Drouseia-Skloinikia in the Akamas Peninsula
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A Rhodian amphora handle of about 117 BCE dates the rooms at Maloutena; in the agora the Polish team found a settling basin and part of an older colonnade.
Source: Department of Antiquities, Cyprus: Completion of the joint expedition of the Warsaw and Jagiellonian Universities in Nea Pafos
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Two 14th-century BCE chamber tombs at Hala Sultan Tekke held amber, lapis lazuli and Sardinian pottery, and the Cyprus Museum set 7 February to show its upgraded galleries.
Source: Department of Antiquities: Excavations at the extraurban cemetery of the Late Bronze Age harbour city of Dromolaxia-Vyzakia
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Used by families for generations, two tomb chambers of about the 14th century BCE near Larnaca were sealed by fallen roofs and held pottery from Crete, Greece and Sardinia.
Source: Department of Antiquities, Cyprus: Excavations at the extraurban cemetery of the Late Bronze Age harbour city of Dromolaxia-Vyzakia
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A University of Graz survey round Amargeti in Paphos District found Bronze Age material and about 70 looted chamber tombs, and a show of Cypriot myths opened in Strasbourg.
Source: Department of Antiquities: Announcement regarding the Graz Amargeti Survey Project
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A University of Graz survey in October 2025 also picked up a Middle Cypriot jug handle, a gaming stone and Roman pottery around the village.
Source: Department of Antiquities, Cyprus: Graz Amargeti Survey Project
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Over 700 kg of Late Roman amphora sherds from the harbour at Pegeia, an Iron Age sanctuary near Agia Marina Xyliatou, and Nicosia's Famagusta Gate restored.
Source: Department of Antiquities: Completion of the archaeological excavation at Agios Georgios, Pegeia
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In 2025 the Copenhagen and Uppsala Life at the Furnace team also excavated plastered basins and cisterns on three terraces at Agia Marina Xyliatou-Mavrovouni.
Source: Department of Antiquities, Cyprus: Life at the Furnace 2025 season (release)
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New York University's 2025 season near Pegeia recorded 68 red-ink inscriptions on the 6th-century jars and studied a Hellenistic and Roman rock-cut tomb.
Source: Department of Antiquities, Cyprus: Completion of the archaeological excavation at Agios Georgios, Pegeia
