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Week 21: 18–24 May 2026

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The German excavation at the sanctuary of Apollo at Frangissa ended its season with more than 20 statue bases found where they were set up, and a study in Antiquity argued that pigeons at Late Bronze Age Hala Sultan Tekke were at least semi-domesticated by 1400 BCE. Cypriot archaeologists warned about building near monuments across the island, and the House of Cyprus in Athens reported on a lecture about the Erimi-Kaukalla cemetery.

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AFieldwork· 18 OctNew

More than 20 statue bases, some still bearing feet, found in place at Frangissa's Apollo sanctuary

Terracotta feet on some of the limestone bases are the first sign in Cyprus that clay figures were given stone pedestals, the Department of Antiquities said.

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Research · 18 OctNew
Pigeons at Bronze Age Hala Sultan Tekke were semi-domesticated by 1400 BCE, study argues

Rectangular limestone blocks packed closely in the earth, seen from above; the block in the centre still carries the two feet of a lost statue — Votive statue bases found in their original places at Frangissa, one still with the feet of its figure.Department of Antiquities, Cyprus · The week's issue →

A pale limestone statuette of a resting bird with folded, incised wings and a small hooked beak, on a grey ground — Limestone statuette of a bird, Cypriot, about 600–480 BCE, from the Cesnola Collection (74.51.2831).The Metropolitan Museum of Art, CC0 · The week's issue →

A wide shallow lake under a blue sky, with scrub and yellow flowers in the foreground and a mosque with a dome and minaret among trees on the far shore — The Larnaca Salt Lake, with the Hala Sultan Tekke mosque on the far shore. The Bronze Age town lay beside it, on what was then a bay open to the sea.Gerda Arendt, CC0 · The story →