https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/topic/research New papers, analyses and dates on the archaeology of Cyprus. 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/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/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/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/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-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-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-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/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-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/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-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-w11 https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/this-week-in-cypriot-archaeology-2026-w11 Sun, 15 Mar 2026 18:00:00 GMT Eighteen Cypriot antiquities spotted in an American online sale are handed back, and a paper costs Chalcolithic travel by sea around the Akamas peninsula. Research Alexis Drakopoulos Title card reading This Week in Cypriot Archaeology, 9–15 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/chlorakas-makounta-chalcolithic-sea-routes-modelled https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/chlorakas-makounta-chalcolithic-sea-routes-modelled Thu, 12 Mar 2026 10:00:00 GMT Per kilo and kilometre, canoes used under 10 kJ against 20–50 kJ on foot between Chlorakas-Palloures and Makounta-Voules, two villages that traded storage jars. Research Alexis Drakopoulos Relief map of the Akamas peninsula in western Cyprus, with a black line running inland from Palloures in the south to Makounta in the north and a blue dashed line following the coast round the tip of the peninsula https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/hala-sultan-tekke-gold-diadems-mouthpieces https://www.ancientcyprus.com/news/hala-sultan-tekke-gold-diadems-mouthpieces Tue, 24 Feb 2026 10:00:00 GMT Nine diadems and two mouth-pieces from Late Bronze Age family tombs mix Egyptian, Aegean and Near Eastern motifs; the heavier ones show wear from use in life. Research Alexis Drakopoulos Eleven strips of embossed gold sheet on a white ground with a 20 cm scale: long bands decorated with bull heads, rosettes, spirals and running animals, narrow plain bands, and two short lozenge-shaped pieces with a hole at each end