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Human images were prominent features in the Cypriote society. Portraits, depictions of real human beings, of both sexes and of different ages ... 

The Neo-Assyrian period in Cyprus corresponds roughly to the century between the last quarter of the 8th and the third quarter of the 7th century BC, that is the time of maximum expansion of the Neo-Assyrian empire ...

The year 2014 marked thirty years of creativity and achievement of the Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation. In 1984, the Bank of Cyprus established the Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation under the main objective to encourage the research and study of Cypriote archaeology ...

The origin of the Cyprus Numismatic Project can be traced back to an informal conversation in Edinburgh in 2003 between Professors Vassos Karageorghis and Keith Rutter. They discussed the island of Cyprus in antiquity, in particular the city-kingdoms ...

From the end of the 19th century, scholars have been searching for the origin of the Greek Aphrodite, the goddess of love. For some, she was a blond goddess from the North, of Indo-European origin. For others, she came from the Orient. But for the Ancient Greeks she was the goddess of Cyprus ...

Major archaeological discoveries are the result of both good fortune and painstaking work. The archaeology of Cyprus is one of the most distinct cases of such a combination. The monumental work accomplished between 1927 and 1931 ...

Since the mid-19th century, the pictorial art of Cyprus was not considered to be autonomous or original enough to give rise to independent studies. The big collection ‘L’Univers des Formes’ published in France in 1960 ...