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Week 26: 22–28 June 2026

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The Department of Antiquities announced the return from France of a clay four-horse chariot of about 600 BCE, found by its officers in an online sale in May 2025. In Paphos, the Avignon University mission ended its season on Fabrika hill and the Hellenistic city wall, where it identified a tower cut into the bedrock.

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Pale clay model of four horses side by side drawing a box in which two figures stand, one holding a round shield, with a round wheel at the side, on a white background — The Cypro-Archaic terracotta quadriga handed over in Paris on 18 June.Department of Antiquities, Cyprus · The week's issue →

Two men on bare bedrock beside a modern railed walkway, one holding a surveying pole and the other a red folder, below a stone church with a bell tower and a tree in front — Surveying the remains of the Hellenistic city wall in front of the church of Panagia Theoskepasti, Paphos.Department of Antiquities, Cyprus · The week's issue →