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Week 1: 29 December 2025 – 4 January 2026

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A Bichrome drinking cup of the 9th or 8th century BCE was handed back to Cyprus in Paris after the Department of Antiquities found it in an online sale. The Turkish Cypriot co-chair of the bicommunal heritage committee set out its record since 2008 and its work for 2026, and the Ethnological Museum in Nicosia stayed shut for restoration.

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A small footed bowl with a loop handle on each side, painted in dark bands with concentric rings inside and a hooked-cross motif in a panel on the outside, photographed on a black ground — The Bichrome III kylix of the Cypro-Geometric III period, handed over in Paris on 19 December 2025.Department of Antiquities, Cyprus · The week's issue →

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