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Department Of Antiquities (Cyprus)
The Department of Antiquities () is a government department of the Republic of Cyprus with responsibility for Archaeology, archaeological research and cultural heritage management. History The Department of Antiquities was established in 1935 by the British Cyprus (1878–1960), British colonial government. It took over the responsibilities of the Committee of the Cyprus Museum that was established in 1882. It has conducted excavations at Khirokitia, Khoirokoitia, Kition, Amathus, Kourion, Paphos, Salamis, Cyprus, Salamis, Enkomi and carried multiple rescue excavations all around the island. The Department of Antiquities operates various archaeological sites such as Idalium, Idalion, Kourion, Paphos Archaeological Park and museums like the Cyprus Museum, archaeological district museums of Paphos, Limassol, Kition and smaller local museums like the Hadjigeorgakis Kornesios Mansion. In 1955 the Director Peter Megaw established the Archaeological Survey Branch, known also as Cyp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Committee Of The Cyprus Museum
The Committee of the Cyprus Museum was established in 1882, it acted as a governing body for the newly established Cyprus Museum. It has been succeeded by the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus. History The workings of the Committee were regulated by thAntiquities Law of 1905 According to the Law of 1905, the members of the Committee were to be elected by the private donors that funded the Committee. The Committee was abolished by the creation of the Department of Antiquities in 1934. Its funding came from the government and private donors, the government gave grants for excavations across the island. The Committee was tasked with conducting excavations throughout the island and organising the collections of the Cyprus Museum. Additionally it granted a scholarship to Menelaos Markides to study archaeology at Oxford. In 1913 the Committee gained a government grand to conduct excavations in Lapithos, under archaeologists, John Linton Myres, Menelaos Markides and Leonard H. D. Buxt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cyprus Museum
The Cyprus Museum (also known as the Cyprus Archaeological Museum) is the oldest and largest archaeological museum in Cyprus, located on Museum Street in central Nicosia. The museum is home to the most extensive collection of Cypriot antiquities in the world, and houses artifacts discovered during numerous excavations on the island. Its history goes hand in hand with the course of modern archaeology (and the Department of Antiquities) in Cyprus. Of note is that only artefacts discovered on the island are displayed. History As an institution, the Cyprus Museum was founded in 1882 during the British occupation of the island following a petition by the Cypriot people. This makes the museum 139 years old. The petition was delivered to the British administration by a delegation headed by the religious leaders of both the Christian and Muslim populations. A major catapult for this action were several illicit excavations and the smuggling of antiquities off the island. The most extensiv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Demos Christou
Demos Christou (Greek: Δήμος Χρήστου) (born 1937) is a Cypriot archaeologist and Director of the Department of Antiquities from 1991 to 1997. Early life and education He was born in the village of Galini. He graduated from Morphou Gymnasium and then studied history and archaeology at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, and continued his studies at the UCL Institute of Archaeology and the École du Louvre. In 1997 he earned his doctoral degree from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens with a dissertation on the funerary architecture of tombs dating to the Cypro-Archaic period. Career In 1975 Christou began working as an Assistant Archaeological Officer at the Department of Antiquities. In 1979 he was tasked with heading a newly created section of the Department that focused on traditional architecture and folk art. He become the Director in 1991, succeeding Athanasios Papageorgiou. He conducted extensive excavations at the Iron Age c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Athanasios Papageorgiou (archaeologist)
Athanasios Papageorgiou (1931 - 26 July 2022) was a Cypriot archaeologist and director of the Department of Antiquities between 1989-1991. Early life, education and career He was born in the village of Palaikythro, his father was a priest Papa-Georgios Athanasiou and his mom Chrystallou Papanastasiou. He graduated from Pancyprian Gymnasium in 1949. He studied theology at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens from 1949 to 1954. Upon coming to Cyprus he worked as a teacher of classics and theology in public schools. In 1955 he joined EOKA and was the connection between Archbishop Makarios III and Georgios Grivas. After the end of the struggle in 1959 and the creation of the Republic of Cyprus in 1960 he went to Paris for graduate studies on Byzantine history and art. He studied at École Pratique des Hautes Études, in the Faculté des Lettres of the University of Paris and at the Collège de France, under various prominent scholars like André Grabar and Paul Le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vassos Karageorghis
Vassos Karageorghis (Greek: Βάσος Καραγιώργης) FBA (29 April 1929 – 21 December 2021) was a Cypriot archaeologist and director of the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus. Early life and education He attended the Pancyprian Gymnasium, he studied Classics in the University of Athens and at University College London, having the chance to excavate at Verulamium under Sir Mortimer Wheeler. Career He was Assistant Curator of the Cyprus Museum between 1952 and 1960 and Curator from 1960 until 1963. Afterwards with the retirement of Porphyrios Dikaios he became Director of the Department of Antiquities from 1963 to 1989. He is notable for the excavation of the Iron Age necropolis of Salamis, his excavations at Kition and the Geometric necropolis at Palaepaphos. He published extensive catalogues of Cypriot collections in museums in Cyprus and abroad. In 1981, Karageorghis became a founding member of the World Cultural Council. He was Professor of archaeology and Dir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Porphyrios Dikaios
Porphyrios Dikaios (Greek: Πορφύριος Δίκαιος) FSA (Nicosia, 16 August 190423 August 1971) was a Cypriot archaeologist. Early life and education Porphyrios was born in Nicosia and graduated from the Pancyprian Gymnasium. He studied archaeology in the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, in the British School at Athens (1924–1925) and the University of Liverpool (1925–1926). He interrupted his studies in Liverpool and continued at the University of Lyon and finally at the University of Sorbonne where he graduated in 1929. Career After returning to Cyprus he was assigned at the age of 25 to the position of Assistant Curator of the Cyprus Museum (1929–1931) and a year later he started his own excavation work. He became Curator of the Cyprus Museum (1931–1960) and finally Director of the Department of Antiquities (1960–1963) after the independence of Cyprus from Britain. He conducted excavation work at Bellapais-Vounous (1931), in the Neol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Robert Hilton
John Robert Hilton, CMG (5 January 1908 – 20 April 1994) was a British academic, architect and intelligence officer. From 1934 to 1936, he served as the first Director of the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus. He then worked as an architect, served in the British Army during the Second World War, and served as a career intelligence officer with MI6 until he retired. Early life and education Hilton was born on 5 January 1908 in Northwood, Middlesex, England, to Oscar and Louisa Hilton; his father was a medical doctor. He was educated at Marlborough College, then an all-boys private boarding school: he was there at the same time as Anthony Blunt, the future art historian and spy for the Soviet Union. He studied classics at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, graduating with a first class honours Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree; as per tradition, his BA was promoted to a Master of Arts (MA Oxon) degree. He studied architecture at Bartlett School of Architecture and University College Lon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Medelhavsmuseet
Medelhavsmuseet (The Museum of Mediterranean and Near Eastern Antiquities) is a museum in central Stockholm focused around collections of mainly ancient objects from the Mediterranean area and the Near East. Since 1999 the museum is one of four composing the National Museums of World Culture, Sweden. History The museum was first formed in 1954 when two separate institutions, the Egyptian Museum and the Cyprus Collection, were combined. The Egyptian Museum had been created in 1928 from artifacts collected in the 18th, 19th and early 20th century while the Cyprus Collection was the result of the excavations of the Swedish Cyprus Expedition in the late 1920s and early 1930s. The Cyprus collection in the museum is the largest outside Cyprus and of great scholarly value. A new gallery of Cypriote antiquities sponsored by the A.G. Leventis Foundation and designed by White (architecture firm), White Architects was opened in January 2009. Besides Egypt and Cyprus the museum also holds col ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swedish Cyprus Expedition
The Swedish Cyprus Expedition was assembled to systematically investigate Cyprus’s early Archaeology, archaeological history. The expedition occurred between September 1927 and March 1931 and was led by the three archaeologists Einar Gjerstad, Erik Sjöqvist and Alfred Westholm together with the architect John Lindros who photographed during their time in Cyprus.Medelhavsmuseet, The exhibition: ''Cypern genom tiderna, The Leventis Gallery of Cypriote Antiquities'', "The Expedition", Stockholm 2009. https://collections.smvk.se/carlotta-mhm/web/object/3953672 The excavation constitutes the foundation of modern archaeology in Cyprus. The results of the excavations revealed that the distinctive culture of early Cyprus had been created in close contact with various cultures from the Middle East and the western Mediterranean Sea, Mediterranean areas. Through careful archaeological excavations around the whole island of Cyprus, the Swedish Cyprus Expedition mapped Cyprus's history fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Partage
Partage, from the French word "partager" meaning "to share," was a system put in place to divide up ownership of excavated artifacts during the early part of the 20th century. This system was mostly notably employed in Egypt, Iraq, Cyprus, Syria, Turkey and Afghanistan. Under ''partage'', foreign-led excavation teams provided the expertise and material means to lead excavations and in return were allowed to share the finds with the local government's archaeological museums. It was through this system that the collections of archaeological museums at the University of Chicago, the University of Pennsylvania, and Harvard and Yale Universities were built up. Important parts of the collections of the British Museum, the Brooklyn Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art also came through ''partage''. It was also how the collections in archaeological museums in the Middle East were built up. According to James Cuno, "Foreign museums underwrote and led scientific excavations from which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Turkish Invasion Of Cyprus
The Turkish invasion of Cyprus began on 20 July 1974 and progressed in two phases over the following month. Taking place upon a background of Cypriot intercommunal violence, intercommunal violence between Greek Cypriots, Greek and Turkish Cypriots, and in response to a 1974 Cypriot coup d'état, Greek junta-sponsored Cypriot coup d'état five days earlier, it led to the Turkish Military occupation, capture and occupation of the northern part of the island. The coup was ordered by the Greek junta, military junta in Greece and staged by the Cypriot National Guard in conjunction with EOKA B. It deposed the Cypriot president Archbishop Makarios III and installed Nikos Sampson. The aim of the coup was the Enosis, union (''enosis'') of Cyprus with Greece, and the Hellenic Republic of Cyprus to be declared. The Battle of Pentemili beachhead, Turkish forces landed in Cyprus on 20 July and captured 3% of the island before a ceasefire was declared. The Greek military junta collapsed a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kyriakos Nicolaou
Kyriakos Nicolaou (Greek: Κυριάκος Νικολάου) (10 October 1918 – 1981) was a Cypriot archaeologist who worked for the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus. Life and works Kyriakos Nicolaou was born in Rizokarpaso in 1918. He attained his primary education in Cyprus, and further education in London. He got a B.A. Hons in Classics from University College London under professor T.B.L. Webster. He studied Practical Archaeology at the UCL Institute of Archaeology under professors Mortimer Wheeler and Gordon Childe. Nicolaou earned his PhD at the University of Gothenburg. After returning to Cyprus he started working at the Department of Antiquities in 1957, first as an Archaeological Officer (1957-1961), then as Assistant Curator of the Cyprus Museum (1961-1964) and finally as Curator of the Cyprus Museum (1964-1978). In 1955 he was appointed Assistant Archaeological Survey Officer. In 1956 he excavated in Enkomi under Porphyrios Dikaios and Claude Schaeffer, additional ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
