Ancient CyprusAncient Cyprus

Curator

Denys Haynes

1913–1994 · United Kingdom

British curator. Succeeded Bernard Ashmole.

Life and work

  1. 1950s – 1960s
    Advocated permanent Cypriot (and Etruscan) galleries in the British Museum; his work on a suite of rooms showing the chronological development of Greek and Roman archaeology laid the groundwork for later cultural displays including Cyprus.

    LondonKiely 2017

  2. 1960–1970
    Spearheaded the renovation programme that reinstated the upper Greek and Roman galleries after wartime damage (completed at the end of the 1960s).

    LondonKiely 2017

  3. 1969
    Arranged the reissue of Excavations in Cyprus (the Museum's 1900 report), noting in the new preface that it remained the only source for these excavations.

    LondonKiely 2017

Connections

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Colleagues & contacts

Sources

  1. 1.T. Kiely (2017). “Britain and the archaeology of Cyprus II: 1914 to the present day”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 47, 253-310. Online
  2. 2.D. Haynes (1992). The Technique of Greek Bronze Statuary. Mainz.