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Week 15: 6–12 April 2026

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The geologist Giorgos Konstantinou, who directed the Geological Survey Department for nineteen years and studied the ancient mining of the island's copper, died this week. The Cyprus Institute reported on its digital-twin work at the monastery of St John Lambadistis, and four Wikimedia contributors described a week photographing 25 museums in the occupied north.

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In it:People Research Museums

An elderly man with grey hair and dark-rimmed glasses, in a red jumper over a checked shirt, speaking and gesturing with one hand in front of a scrub-covered rocky slope — Giorgos Konstantinou, in the photograph issued with the Deputy Ministry of Culture's announcement.Deputy Ministry of Culture · The week's issue →

Limestone statues, statuettes and heads of men and women arranged on stepped black plinths against a red wall, with small bilingual labels in Turkish and English — Limestone sculpture on display in the archaeological museum at Trikomo, one of the museums photographed for Wikimedia Commons.Biologg, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons · The week's issue →