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Yeronisos Island Expedition

http://www.nyu.edu/projects/yeronisos/

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.

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The Earliest Prehistory of Cyprus

http://www.bu.edu/asor/pubs/books-monographs/swiny.pdf

A number of scientific articles provided by the American Schools of Oriental Research.

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The Cyprus Treasure

http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/project/Treasure/Treasure_Eng/index.html

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

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Sydney Cyprus Survey Project

http://www.scsp.arts.gla.ac.uk/

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

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Phlamoudi-Melissa Project

http://www.learn.columbia.edu/phlamoudhi/

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.

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One Cannot Export a Palace on Board a Ship

http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/ioa/backdirt/Fallwinter00/cypriot.html

From Backdirt, Aegean influences on Cypriot architecture toward the end of the Late Bronze Age, 13th century bce.

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HEMEA

http://members.multimania.nl/hemea/greek.html

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

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Excavations at Politiko Phorades

http://www.scsp.arts.gla.ac.uk/Phorades/index.htm

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.

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Excavations at Kissonerga

http://www.arcl.ed.ac.uk/arch/publications/cyprus/kissonerga/

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

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Early Agricultural Remnants and Technical Heritage (EARTH)

http://www.earth.arts.gla.ac.uk/

Fieldwork project to study threshing floors and the pre-mechanized agricultural landscape in Cyprus. Provides aims and objectives, activities, news, and resource links.

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Cyprus Archaeology

http://www.cyprus-archaeology.org.uk/

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

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Choirokoitia

http://www.worldheritagesite.org/sites/choirokoitia.html

World heritage listing of the Choirokoitia archaeological site by UNESCO.

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BBC: Bronze Age Perfume Discovered

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4364469.stm

Italian archaeologists in Cyprus say they have found the site of an ancient perfume factory from the Bronze Age.

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Art Theft from Cyprus to Munich

http://www.archaeology.org/online/features/cyprus/

Archaeology magazine feature article by Mark Rose on the looting of frescoes, mosaics and icons from churches in Northern Cyprus.

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Ancient Cyprus Webproject

http://www.ancientcyprus.ac.uk/

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.

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Ancient Cyprus

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ancientcyprus/

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

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Ancient Ceramic Technology & Production in Cyprus

http://www.archaeometry.gr/oldv/thetis/research/cyprus/cyprus.htm

A research project referring to a multidisciplinary study from the Late Neolithic to the Hellenistic period. Description of the project, participants, and publications.

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Agia Varvara-Almyras Research Project

http://home.datacomm.ch/almyras/

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.

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Aceramic Period Cyprus

http://www.aai.freeservers.com/cyprus_in_the_aceramic_period.htm

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.

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