Ancient CyprusAncient Cyprus

Scholar

Polina Nikolaou

fl. 2013–2025

Scholar, active 2013–2025.

Life and work

  1. 2017
    Published 'Authoring the ancient sites of Cyprus in the late nineteenth century: the British Museum excavation notebooks, 1893-1896' on the notebooks of the three Turner Bequest seasons (Amathus 1893-94, Kourion 1895, Enkomi 1896), made in the archive of the BM Department of Greece and Rome with help from Thomas Kiely.

    Nikolaou 2017

  2. 2025
    Author of chapter 18, 'The Ancient Cyprus collection at the British Museum: retracing stories of travelling antiquities, knowledge, and empire', in Empire & Excavation (eds Kiely, Reeve and Crewe).

    Given 2025

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Sources

  1. 1.Polina Nikolaou (2017). “Authoring the ancient sites of Cyprus in the late nineteenth century: the British Museum excavation notebooks, 1893-1896”. Journal of Historical Geography 57. Online
  2. 2.P. Nikolaou (2015). “Archaeology, empire and the field: exploring the ancient sites of Cyprus, 1865-1876”. Spaces of global knowledge: exhibition, encounter and exchange in an age of empire, 39-98. Farnham, Ashgate.
  3. 3.P. Nikolaou (2013). “The diaspora of Cypriot antiquities and the British Museum (1860-1900)”. PhD thesis, University of Exeter.
  4. 4.P. Nikolaou (2025). “The Ancient Cyprus collection at the British Museum: retracing stories of travelling antiquities, knowledge, and empire”. Empire & Excavation.
  5. 5.Michael Given (2025). “Over the landscape, in the landscape? Knowledge and agency in Cypriot archaeology, 1870-1910”. Empire & Excavation: Critical perspectives on archaeology in British-period Cyprus, 1878-1960. Leiden, Sidestone Press.