Cyprus
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From the Cyprus Mail (tip o’ the pileus to our long-time Explorator source Dave Sowdon for this): ARCHEOLOGISTS digging a small island off Cyprus’ western coast have discovered amulets bearing male names, believed to have been worn by male toddlers over 2,000 years ago, it was announced yesterday. The artefacts were found on the island…
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Brief item from Bloomberg: Archaeologists in Cyprus found evidence that an island off the Mediterranean country’s south- west coast was the site of a temple for worshiping Apollo, the ancient Greek god of light, prophecy, music and healing. Excavations led by New York University on Geronisos unearthed fragments of pithoi, or storage vessels probably used…
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StonePages had this at the beginning of the month, but it doesn’t seem to have hit the ‘English press’ until recently. Italian archaeologists working on Cyprus have excavated a triangular-shaped (!) temple at Pyrgos-Mavroraki believed to date to around 2,000 BC (which would make it the oldest temple on Cyprus; the jury’s still out on that…
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