Cyprus

See also:

• Regional: Middle East: Cyprus: Society and Culture: History  (2)
• Science: Social Sciences: Archaeology: Regional: Mediterranean  (10)

Aceramic Period Cyprus - - Article on the Aceramic Period of Khirokitia dated to the sixth millennium BCE. The settlement displays cosmopolitan contacts with adjacent Palaeolithic societies in the Mediterranean.

Agia Varvara-Almyras Research Project - - Study of ancient copper production on Cyprus. The project is a joint-venture between the Archaeometallurgical Project of Agia Varvara-Almyras in Cyprus, the Swiss National Foundation for Scientific Research and the Federal Laboratories for Materials Testing and Research. Site also available in German.

Ancient Ceramic Technology & Production in Cyprus - - A research project referring to a multidisciplinary study from the Late Neolithic to the Hellenistic period. Description of the project, participants, and publications.

Ancient Cyprus - - Mailing list on the archaeology and history of Cyprus from earliest times to 1900CE. Open to archaeologists, historians, and interested members of the public.

Ancient Cyprus Webproject - - Provides information such as bibliographies, sources of funding, centers of study, lists of collections and access arrangements, scholar and project contact details, bulletins on excavations and projects, and excavation reports related to Cyprus.

Cyprus Archaeology - - Site devoted to Cyprus and Cypriot Archaeology. Lists of sites, periods, projects, and museums.

The Cyprus Treasure - - An evolving electronic library of historic monuments of ancient and Byzantine Cyprus.

Early Agricultural Remnants and Technical Heritage (EARTH) - - Fieldwork project to study threshing floors and the pre-mechanized agricultural landscape in Cyprus. Provides aims and objectives, activities, news, and resource links.

Excavations at Kissonerga - - Edgar Peltenburg's report on excavations by the University of Edinburgh 1979- 1992, part of the Lemba Archaeological Project.

Excavations at Palaipaphos - - Project reconstructing the history of the city of Palaipaphos in Cyprus and of its famous Sanctuary of Aphrodite. Excavations first conducted in 1966 by the German Archaeological Institute.

Excavations at Politiko Phorades - - A Late Bronze Age Cypriot copper mining site, the excavation is part of the Sydney Cyprus Survey Project investigating ancient mining and landscape archaeology in Cyprus.

HEMEA - - Extensive listing of archaeological sites and excavations in Greece and Cyprus.

Life in Cyprus: Archaeology - - Tourist guide and map to archaeological sites in Cyprus.

Phlamoudi-Melissa Project - - Excavations conducted by Columbia University focus on two localities in the town, Vounari and Melissa. The sites are of the late Middle through Late Bronze Ages.

Sydney Cyprus Survey Project - - An interdisciplinary regional survey project in the Northern Troodos foothills, Central Cyprus, by the Department of Archaeology, University of Glasgow.

Vasilikos Valley Project - - ASOR field survey and various geographical and environmental studies of the region. Excavations have been undertaken at four major sites: the Neolithic site of Kalavasos-Tenta, the Chalcolithic site of Kalavasos-Ayious, the Middle-Late Bronze Age cemetery site within Kalavasos village and the Late Bronze Age settlement and cemetery at Kalavasos-Ayios Dhimitrios.

Yeronisos Island Expedition - - Archaeological expedition on the island of Yeronisos, off the coast of Cyprus, undertaken by Professor Joan Breton Connelly and the Yeronisos Island Expedition for New York University.

BBC: Bronze Age Perfume Discovered - - Italian archaeologists in Cyprus say they have found the site of an ancient perfume factory from the Bronze Age. (March 19, 2005)

• Bulldozed to the Ground - From Cyprus Mail, a row has broken out between the Turkish Cypriot ‘department of antiquities and museums’ and a construction company over what the department claims is the “illegal destruction of a grade one archaeological site” at Vounos, near Kazafani, to make way for luxury homes. (June 11, 2004)

  One Cannot Export a Palace on Board a Ship - - From Backdirt, Aegean influences on Cypriot architecture toward the end of the Late Bronze Age, 13th century bce. (2000)

  Art Theft from Cyprus to Munich - - Archaeology magazine feature article by Mark Rose on the looting of frescoes, mosaics and icons from churches in Northern Cyprus. (April 20, 1998)