Some friends and I visited the Irdalion site and museum outside of Nicosia. Cyprus is overflowing with archeological finds. At various times in history, Cyprus has been under the control of the: Phoenicians, Venetians, Ottomans, British, French, Turks, Syrians, and the Greeks. We have artifacts from all of those, many of which are intact buildings, and many of which are still being excavated.
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| Old wine and olive oil vessels pieced together |
Many teams of archaeologists are always digging around the sites. They find thousands of pieces of broken pottery, and bring it back to the museum grounds to assemble. Each of the boxes in this photo contain many shards of broken pottery, which the archeologists then piece back together.
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| So many pieces |
We went to hear the lecture about the site. It was given by one of the women who sits on the Board of Cypriot Museums. What we didn't know was that the lecture would be in Greek.
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| Thus, I sat in a corner and admired an old coin collection for about 40 minutes |
But someone had set this up on the actual dig site. It was a nice sight to see as we were leaving the museum.
