Ancient Cyprus |
Veronica A.Tatton- Brown ISBN: 0714121207 The geographical position of Cyprus at the eastern end of the Mediterranean has always played a vital role in its history. As an island poised between the major civilizations of the ancient world - Mesopotamia, Assyria and Persia to the east, Anatolia...(read more) |
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Archaeological Field Survey in Cyprus: Past History,Future Potentials |
Maria Iacovou (Editor) ISBN: 0904887464 The volume contains fifteen papers. Ten of them record the genesis and the development of archaeological survey in Cyprus: they also discuss the reasons why the 20th century ended with serious set-backs in the protection of cultural landscapes, despite...(read more) |
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Chalcolithic Cyprus |
Kenneth Hamma (Editor), James W Flanagan (Editor) ISBN: 0892362073 Sorry - no summary available. |
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Civilization of Prehistoric Cyprus |
Vassos Karageorghis ISBN: 0933516991 Sorry - no summary available. |
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Cyprus Before History: From the Earliest Settlers to the End of the Bronze Age |
Louise Steel ISBN: 0715631640 Cyprus is the third largest island in the Mediterranean, and lies at the nexus of many important ancient trade routes, from Asia Minor to Africa, from Persia, Assyria and other great eastern powers to Italy and Greece. In antiquity the island was famed...(read more) |
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Cyprus Before the Bronze Age: Art of the Chalcolithic Period |
Vassos Karageorghis, Edgar J. Peltenburg ISBN: 0892361689 Sorry - no summary available. |
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Discovery of Atlantis: The Startling Case for the Island of Cyprus |
Robert Sarmast ISBN: 1579830129 Plato provided 53 physical clues in his famous dialogue Critias -- the original account of the story of Atlantis that is the sole basis of all Atlantis research. The book proves that the island of Cyprus and the underwater landscape just south of Cyprus...(read more) |
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Gender in Ancient Cyprus: Narratives of Social Change on a Mediterranean Island |
Diane Bolger ISBN: 0759104301 Gender in Ancient Cyprus examines some of the fundamental facets of gender as they intersect with the dynamics of social, political, and economic change in Cyprus, beginning with the earliest traces of human habitation on the island to the final phases...(read more) |
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Hostage to History: Cyprus from the Ottomans to Kissinger |
Christopher Hitchens ISBN: 1859841899 This is a study of great-power misconduct. Christopher Hitchens examines the events leading up to the partition of Cyprus and its legacy. The book argues that the intervention of four major foreign powers - Turkey, Greece, Britain and the United States...(read more) |
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Kition: Mycenaean and Phoenician Discoveries in Cyprus |
Vassos Karageorghis ISBN: 0500390134 Sorry - no summary available. |
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Mortuary Ritual and Society in Bronze Age Cyprus |
Priscilla Keswani ISBN: 1904768032 Mortuary Ritual and Society in Bronze Age Cyprus is a ground-breaking investigation of burial practices and social transformations in the era when Cypriot agricultural communities moved from village to urban life and became major players in the eastern...(read more) |
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Neolithic Revolution: New Perspectives on Southwest Asia in Light of Recent Discoveries on Cyprus |
Edgar J. Peltenburg (Editor), Alexander Wasse (Editor) ISBN: 1842171321 The move towards a sedentary way of life had a profound effect on the human way of life: the development of complex societies can be directly attributed to the beginnings of farming in place of a nomadic hunter-gatherer lifestyle. When Gordon Childe...(read more) |
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Place of Refuge: The History of the Jews in Cyprus |
Stavros Panteli ISBN: 1904027075 In this unique and ground-breaking work, Dr Stavros Panteli surveys the history of the Jews in Cyprus over the past two-and-a-half thousand years. Because of its geographical proximity to Palestine, the island has often been a sanctuary for Jewish...(read more) |
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Provenience Studies and Bronze Age Cyprus: Production, Exchange and Politico-Economic Change |
A.Bernard Knapp, John F. Cherry ISBN: 1881094103 In the archaeological reconstruction of prehistoric production and exchange systems, the use of provenience techniques has assumed a high profile. The primary aim of such archaeometric work has been the "objective" identification of non-local...(read more) |
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The Cyprus Conspiracy: America, Espionage and the Turkish Invasion |
Brendan O'Malley, Ian Craig ISBN: 1860647375 In 1974 the Greek colonels ousted the Greek-Cypriot leader of Cyprus, Archbishop Makarios, and Turkey retaliated by invading and seizing a third of the island. Cyprus remains split in two, like Berlin before the wall came down, bristling with troops and...(read more) |
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The Late Roman Church at Maroni Petrera: Survey and Salvage Excavations 1990-1997 and Other Traces of Roman Remains in the Lower Maroni Valley, Cyprus |
Sturt W. Manning ISBN: 9963560423 This book is a report on the survey work and salvage excavations undertaken at the Late Roman church of Maroni Petrera between 1990 and 1997. The church is located in the Lower Maroni Valley in southern Cyprus and was first established in the mid-5th...(read more) |
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