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Week 41: 5–11 October 2026

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Two 14th-century icons stolen from Kyrenia after the 1974 invasion came back to the Metropolis of Morphou, and the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford opened its Aphrodite exhibition with loans from Cyprus. In Nicosia, two museums presented exhibitions of coins and of Armenian church treasures, ministers visited the site of the new Cyprus Museum, and the University of Cyprus won a European doctoral network on pottery.

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Two painted icons side by side on gold grounds, each showing a bearded evangelist holding a closed red book, the left one in a red cloak and the right one in a green cloak with a pen raised to his chin — The icons of the Evangelists Matthew and Mark, returned to the Church of Cyprus.The week's issue →

Paved courtyard between honey-coloured stone buildings, with an arcade and a large clay jar on the left, a white upper storey with shuttered windows, and a row of stone buttresses on the right — The Archbishopric precinct in Nicosia, where the Byzantine Museum stands, in 2014.NicosiaRepublicCyprus, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 · The week's issue →

A group in hard hats and high-visibility vests walking down a wide, unfinished white corridor with ceiling services exposed — The visiting party inside the new museum building on 7 October 2026.Stavros Ioannides, Press and Information Office (PIO) · The week's issue →

Excavated round buildings with low curved walls in yellow earth, an information panel in front and the shelter roof above — Round buildings of the Neolithic village at Kalavasos-Tenta, under its modern shelter.Klaus D. Peter, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0 DE · The week's issue →