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Week 30: 20–26 July 2026

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The Akamas municipality announced the end of this year's season at the Bronze Age settlement of Skalia, outside Kissonerga. In Israel, a silver-plated coin struck at Salamis in the 5th century BCE was handed to the Israel Antiquities Authority after a beach official found it at Ashdod. A study of 229 people buried at Hellenistic and Roman Paphos compared the state of their teeth.

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AFieldwork· 18 OctNew

2026 dig at Kissonerga-Skalia adds to the case for Bronze Age beer, Akamas municipality says

Lindy Crewe's CAARI team closed its season at the village north of Paphos, where a 4 m oven yielded charred wheat and terebinth in 2025.

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Research · 18 OctNew
Teeth of 229 people buried at Hellenistic and Roman Paphos show more gum disease than decay

A worn grey silver coin on a black ground, showing a ram's head inside a sunken square, with a branch on the left and faint signs along the bottom — The siglos from Ashdod: a ram's head in a sunken square, with a laurel branch and three signs read as Cypriot syllabic script.Photo: Shai Halevi, Israel Antiquities Authority · The week's issue →

Painted relief on pale limestone of a seated, bearded, naked man with raised hands facing a ram with a small figure beneath it, above a band of spiral pattern — Detail of the Odysseus side of the limestone sarcophagus found in 2006 at Kouklia, now in the Palaepaphos Local Museum.Photo: Carole Raddato, cropped, CC BY-SA 2.0 · The week's issue →

A wide view from high ground over fields and scattered trees to a flat headland and the sea — The coastal plain in 1969, with the site of Nea Paphos on the low headland. Hotels built over the cemetery east of the city in the 1980s prompted the rescue digs there.Photo: Brian Harrington Spier, CC BY-SA 2.0 · The story →