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Week 28: 6–12 July 2026

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The local museum of finds from Kourion, at Episkopi, is to close for upgrade works from 1 August, and the Department of Antiquities mourned Andreas Kallis, the stonemason who rose from labourer in 1960 to chief foreman for the whole island.

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A white-walled museum hall under a pointed stone arch and a timber and reed ceiling, with a headless draped marble statue in the foreground, other statues on plinths and pottery in glass cases — A gallery of the Local Archaeological Museum of Kourion at Episkopi.Department of Antiquities, Cyprus · The week's issue →

A grey-haired man in a striped shirt resting his hand on a large square stone slab with a partly carved relief, standing against a wall of cut stone blocks — Andreas Kallis beside the stone panel he left unfinished in Famagusta in 1963, photographed where he found it again years later.Department of Antiquities, Cyprus · The week's issue →