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Week 37: 7–13 September 2026

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The University of Oxford announced an autumn exhibition on Aphrodite at the Ashmolean Museum, opening with Cyprus and borrowing antiquities from the island. Routledge put online a sixteen-chapter volume on Cypriot pottery, Levant published charred plant offerings from the Late Bronze Age tombs of Hala Sultan Tekke, and the Cyprus Institute invited the public to a lecture day on archaeological science with China's National Centre for Archaeology.

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A dark conical stone on a white plinth in a whitewashed room with a mosaic floor — The conical stone from the sanctuary at Palaepaphos, now in the Local Museum of Palaipaphos.Wojciech Biegun, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons · The week's issue →

Four pots on a white ground with a 10 cm scale: a plain orange jug, a slender dark grey jug with a long neck, a buff jug with brown painted bands, and a small two-handled jar on a tall foot — The four vessels from the Hala Sultan Tekke tombs whose contents were analysed.T. Bürge and L. Avial Chicharro, Levant (2026), CC BY 4.0 · The week's issue →

Book cover with blotches of blue, green and orange colour around a dark red band carrying the title Ancient and Preindustrial Ceramics from Cyprus, the subtitle and the editors' names — The cover of the volume.Routledge · The week's issue →