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Early Cypriots were Neolithic tool-users whose flint blades and implements are on display as you enter the museum. The collection also includes ornaments of shell and obsidian.

Ceramics and wine bowls made by Mycenaean settlers are the main exhibits here, but the most striking item is a gold-inlaid bowl discovered at Enkomi.

An amazing army of terracotta votive figurines discovered at the shrine at Agia Irini and dating from the 7th and 6th centuries BC. More than 2,000 were found at the site.

Poised to hurl a thunderbolt, a marble statue of Zeus dominates Room 5. The room also houses a collection of Classical and Hellenistic statues, including one of Aphrodite from the 1st century AD.

The glowering, naked bronze figure of the 2nd century AD Roman emperor is one of the world’s most impressive relics of ancient Rome.

The enigmatic bronze “horned god” statue, together with a splendid bowl stand decorated with animal figures, are the highlights of this room full of finds from the Enkomi site.

This eerie room recreates secret stone tombs from different eras, discovered at sites all over the island.

Ivory carvings of mythological beasts once adorned one of the thrones in this collection of finds from the Royal Tombs at Salamis.

The colourful mosaic, made from red, ochre, black and white tesserae (tiles), depicts the myth of Leda and the Swan and was found in one of the Hellenistic villas at Palea Pafos.

The superb gold and silver jewellery, plates and chalices displayed around the Leda mosaic date from the 6th century AD and were found at Lambousa in northern Cyprus.