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Week 22: 25–31 May 2026

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The French mission at Amathus traced a thick Late Roman wall along the west terrace of the acropolis, and the excavation report on the Tombs of the Kings at Paphos began to appear in print with its first volume. In Nicosia, the builders of the new Cyprus Museum showed journalists round the site.

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French team traces a 2 m-thick Late Roman wall, probably defensive, on the Amathus acropolis

Fallen roof tiles covered a tiled floor east of the wall, and a trench above an Archaic fortification yielded Iron Age figurines and pottery.

Overhead photograph of an L-shaped excavation trench, with a broad band of packed rough stones running down its left side and bare earth floors to the right — Trench 1 on the west terrace of the Amathus acropolis from the air, with the wall along its western side.Department of Antiquities, Cyprus · The week's issue →