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Week 36: 31 August – 6 September 2026

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An Italian team closed its 2026 season at a Middle Bronze Age hilltop near Erimi with the full plan of a building of about 250 m² and a threshold scored with a senet-type game board. A Limassol tourism body announced AI-made 3D scenes for Kourion, a Nicosia museum closed after storm damage to its power supply, and the Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation set a date to launch the book of its exhibition Cyprus Insula.

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Hollows cut into a Bronze Age threshold at Erimi match a senet game board

The University of Siena's 2026 season at Erimi-Laonin tou Porakou exposed the full plan of a 250 m² courtyard building and dug three late Middle Bronze Age chamber tombs.

Aerial view of an excavated hilltop with a grid of low stone walls forming rectangular rooms on pale bedrock, round holes cut into the floors, and excavators at work with buckets and wheelbarrows — Excavation on the hilltop at Erimi-Laonin tou Porakou in 2026.Department of Antiquities, Cyprus · The week's issue →

A whitewashed hall with stone arches, a dark timber ceiling and a flagstone floor, furnished with upholstered chairs, a sofa and a round table on a patterned rug, with a raised seating area visible through an arch at the back — Inside the House of Hadjigeorgakis Kornesios in Nicosia, home of the Ethnological Museum.Department of Antiquities, Cyprus · The week's issue →