https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/topic/fieldwork Excavation seasons, surveys and rescue work in Cyprus. en Sat, 17 Oct 2026 18:32:00 GMT 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/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-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/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/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/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/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-w13 https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/this-week-in-cypriot-archaeology-2026-w13 Sun, 29 Mar 2026 17:00:00 GMT 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. Fieldwork Alexis Drakopoulos Title card reading This Week in Cypriot Archaeology, 23–29 March 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-w06 https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/this-week-in-cypriot-archaeology-2026-w06 Sun, 08 Feb 2026 18:00:00 GMT 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. Fieldwork Alexis Drakopoulos Title card reading This Week in Cypriot Archaeology, 2–8 February 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/drouseia-skloinikia-early-holocene-knapping-floor-akamas https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/drouseia-skloinikia-early-holocene-knapping-floor-akamas Thu, 05 Feb 2026 10:00:00 GMT 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. Fieldwork Alexis Drakopoulos Two divers in black wetsuits in clear shallow water beside a jagged rock outcrop, with a curving bay, a sandy shore and low hills behind under a blue sky https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/nea-paphos-2025-season-maloutena-metalworking-agora https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/nea-paphos-2025-season-maloutena-metalworking-agora Thu, 05 Feb 2026 10:00:00 GMT 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. Fieldwork Alexis Drakopoulos Excavators with buckets around a rectangular trench edged with low stone walls in dry scrub, with a white lighthouse on the low hill behind https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/this-week-in-cypriot-archaeology-2026-w05 https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/this-week-in-cypriot-archaeology-2026-w05 Sun, 01 Feb 2026 18:00:00 GMT 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. Fieldwork Alexis Drakopoulos Title card reading This Week in Cypriot Archaeology, 26 January–1 February 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/dromolaxia-vyzakia-elite-late-bronze-age-chamber-tombs https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/dromolaxia-vyzakia-elite-late-bronze-age-chamber-tombs Mon, 26 Jan 2026 10:00:00 GMT 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. Fieldwork Alexis Drakopoulos A two-handled krater on a low foot, photographed on white with a 20 cm scale: a cream body painted in dark brown with an octopus whose wavy tentacles run right round the pot, a red-brown neck and a rope-pattern rim https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/this-week-in-cypriot-archaeology-2026-w04 https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/this-week-in-cypriot-archaeology-2026-w04 Sun, 25 Jan 2026 18:00:00 GMT 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. Fieldwork Alexis Drakopoulos Title card reading This Week in Cypriot Archaeology, 19–25 January 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/amargeti-graz-survey-looted-chamber-tombs https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/amargeti-graz-survey-looted-chamber-tombs Thu, 22 Jan 2026 10:00:00 GMT 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. Fieldwork Alexis Drakopoulos Dry fields of stubble and young fenced saplings beside a pale dirt track, with low scrub-covered hills under a blue sky https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/this-week-in-cypriot-archaeology-2026-w02 https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/this-week-in-cypriot-archaeology-2026-w02 Sun, 11 Jan 2026 18:00:00 GMT 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. Fieldwork Alexis Drakopoulos Title card reading This Week in Cypriot Archaeology, 5–11 January 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/agia-marina-xyliatou-life-at-the-furnace-copper-landscape https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/agia-marina-xyliatou-life-at-the-furnace-copper-landscape Wed, 07 Jan 2026 10:00:00 GMT 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. Fieldwork Alexis Drakopoulos Three archaeologists digging pits in grey stony ground on a low rise, with buckets and a scale bar, olive trees and dry hills behind https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/pegeia-agios-georgios-late-roman-harbour-amphorae https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/pegeia-agios-georgios-late-roman-harbour-amphorae Wed, 07 Jan 2026 10:00:00 GMT 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. Fieldwork Alexis Drakopoulos An excavated slope of reddish earth and pale bedrock running down to the sea between white boulders, with a stone pile, a range pole, scale bars and a board reading Maniki 21 VI 25