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Week 13: 23–29 March 2026

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The University of Warsaw published its account of the 2025 excavation season at Nea Paphos on 24 March. In the Maloutena quarter the team found crucibles for melting metal next to rooms that a stamped Rhodian amphora handle dates to the late Hellenistic period; in the agora it exposed part of a colonnade that had not been known before.

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Excavators with buckets working round a rectangular trench cut into dry ground, with low stone walls at its edge and a white lighthouse on the skyline behind — Trench MAL TT.X in the Maloutena quarter during the 2025 season, with the Paphos lighthouse on the skyline.Photo: P. Lech, University of Warsaw · The week's issue →

Excavators working among rough stone foundations in a trench, with a man filming from the edge above, buckets and finds trays along the rim and dry-stone walls behind — Trench T.II, in the northern part of the eastern portico of the agora, in 2025.Photo: E. Papuci-Władyka, University of Warsaw · The week's issue →