Cyprus painted pottery, although made of raw material, constitutes the only visual craft that has survived until the present day in such a great quantity. Through images depicted on vases we gain insight into many aspects of everyday life, myths, politics or culture in the classical antiquity. What do these vases tell us? What can we see on them?

Within the framework of the 2018 European Year of Cultural Heritage, the Austrian Embassy cordially invites you to a lecture on Cyprus attic vases by Professor Dr. Maria Christidis from the Institute of Archaeology of the University of Graz, entitled:

When Vases Narrate! 
Attic Vase-painting as Communication Media of Society

The two neighbouring cities of Cologne and Bonn (Germany) are pleased to invite you to the 19th International Congress of Classical Archaeology, which will be held from 22 - 26 May 2018.

The congress, organized every five years by the Associazone Internazionale di Archeologia Classica (AIAC), provides the most important platform of exchange for all disciplines that deal with Greco-Roman civilization and their neighbouring cultures from the Aegean Bronze Age to the end of Late Antiquity.

The 19th International Congress of Classical Archaeology 2018 will focus on the primary theme "Archaeology and Economy in the Ancient World". In fact, economic aspects permeate all areas of public and private life in ancient societies, whether in urban development, in religion or art, in housing or in death.

The Joint Meeting nomisma.org and ECFN is an important annual event with the participation of scholars of Numismatics and related disciplines, academics, curators of coin collections and IT developers from the most prestigious universities, institutions and museums of Europe and the United States, involved in innovative projects in the field of Digital Numismatics, subjects in constant development.

Thursday 2 May will be reserved for members of the Nomisma.org groups and the DARIAH-EU Digital Numismatics WG.
Friday 3 May and Saturday 4 May will be dedicated to the European Coin Find Network (ECFN).

The conference concerns address a full spectrum of topics:
— Micro and macroeconomics in the ancient and medieval world.
— Currency system, coin production, and circulation.
— Trade and economic integration.
— Commercial transactions and markets.
— Iconography, identity, and propaganda. 
— Coins in an archaeological context and literary sources.
The Conference is addressed to students and Ph.D. students of archaeology, history and other related sciences. In the previous editions, the young scholars from Austria, Bulgaria, Hungary, Latvia, Italy, Turkey, Poland and UK took part.

Presentations of 20 minutes of doctoral and student projects will be presented in English. The Conference fee is 20 EUR. During the conference, there will be a possibility of visiting the Numismatic Collection of Emeryk Hutten-Czapski Museum. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings.

Over more than 40 years from the late 1970s to the present day, A. Bernard Knapp has become a key and defining voice in the scholarship on prehistoric Cyprus and the wider Mediterranean. He is the author, co-author, or editor of 24 books and numerous articles, book chapters and reviews, and is the co-editor of the leading Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology, which he founded in 1988. Notable as a scholar combining ancient Near Eastern textual expertise with a focus on the Bronze Age archaeology of Cyprus and the eastern Mediterranean, starting with his Berkeley PhD dissertation of 1979, ‘A Re-examination of the Interpretation of Cypriote Material Culture in the MCII-LCI Period in the Light of Textual Data’, Knapp has ranged from an early focus especially on the Bronze Age and issues around Cypriot archaeometallurgy and trade, to take on the entire prehistory of Cyprus from earliest times (The Archaeology of Cyprus from Earliest Prehistory through the Bronze Age, 2013), as well as the wider history and archaeology of the prehistoric Mediterranean world, and a range of topics in archaeological theory. Most recently, Knapp has engaged with the maritime archaeology of the east Mediterranean in his 2018 volume: Seafaring and Seafarers in the Bronze Age Eastern Mediterranean. In between, he has also co-directed two leading archaeological survey projects on Cyprus, the Sydney Cyprus Survey Project (published 2003) and the Troodos Archaeological and Environmental Survey Project (published 2013).

We meet as appropriate in Nicosia, Cyprus, to celebrate Bernard Knapp’s extraordinary and productive career which has come to define many aspects of the prehistory of Cyprus and the Mediterranean. The workshop—entitled The Archaeology of Cyprus and the Wider Mediterranean: A Conference in Honour of A. Bernard Knapp—is organized by Sturt Manning (Cornell University) in collaboration with Vasiliki Kassianidou (Archaeological Research Unit, University of Cyprus) and Lindy Crewe (Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute). It will take place at the Archaeological Research Unit of the University of Cyprus, 12 Gladstone Street, 1095 Nicosia, CYPRUS and is open to those who wish to attend.

Exhibition, "Cyprus: A Dynamic Island" held at the National Museum of Antiquities of the Netherlands in Leiden (Rijksmuseum van Oudheden).

The exhibition features a selection of 400 archaeological objects from Cyprus, the most number ever lent at once to a foreign museum by the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus.

The exhibition will run until 15 March 2020. 

The International Conference: "Coins for the Gods, Coins for the Merchants ‒ Economy of the sacred compared to the economy of profane" is co-organized with the European Center for Numismatic Studies (Brussels), The Netherlands Institute at Athens, the Italian Archaeological School at Athens and the Radboud University Nijmegen.