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Week 11: 9–15 March 2026

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Eighteen Cypriot antiquities withdrawn from an American online sale have been handed back to Cyprus, the Department of Antiquities announced on 10 March. In the same week a paper in the Journal of Maritime Archaeology set the cost of Chalcolithic travel by sea against travel on foot in the Paphos district, and the memoir of the island's first Director of Antiquities is now in print. The Cyprus Museum also announced a series of artist talks for children.

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Research· 18 OctNew

Paddling 60 km round the Akamas matched carrying loads 31 km overland, Chalcolithic model finds

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.

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Books · New book · 18 OctNew
Cyprus's first Director of Antiquities was sacked within a year; his memoir is now in print

Three small round-bodied clay jugs with cut-away spouts and loop handles on a grey cloth, the left one red and set on a black metal stand, the middle one pale with brown painted stripes — Three of the jugs in the group returned from the United States.The week's issue →

A long museum gallery lined with glazed wooden cases holding rows of similar pots on shelves — The main gallery of the Cyprus Museum in the late 1920s. The Museum became part of Hilton's new Department on 1 January 1935.John Lindros, National Museums of World Culture, Sweden, CC BY-NC-ND · The story →

Paddling 60 km round the Akamas matched carrying loads 31 km overland, Chalcolithic model finds

Cyprus's first Director of Antiquities was sacked within a year; his memoir is now in print