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Week 35: 24–30 August 2026

1 piece·2 places

A researcher in the occupied north announced the eighth pottery symposium at the Early Bronze Age cemetery of Vounous, and the medieval castle at Paphos was closed for five days for an opera.

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A flat rectangular clay figure with a small head and incised bands across the body, standing upright against a dark background — Plank-shaped clay figure with incised decoration from Vounous, dated by the museum to about 2100–1800 BCE. Musée du Louvre, AM 822.Francesco Bini, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons · The week's issue →

A square stone fort with crenellated walls standing at the end of a harbour mole, reached by a footbridge, with calm water and a pebble shore in front — The medieval castle at the end of the harbour mole in Kato Paphos.Department of Antiquities, Cyprus · The week's issue →