Top 10 Top 10 Prehistoric and Ancient Sites
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1. Amathous
Founded around 1000 BC, Amathous flourished under the Romans and Byzantines (see Ancient Amathous).
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2. Kourion
This clifftop city is at least 3,300 years old, but the site may have been occupied even earlier (see Kourion).
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3. Palaia Pafos
Archaeologists have found Chalkolithic idols here from the 4th century BC.
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4. Chirokitia
Stone “beehive huts” (tholoi ) and graves show that this settlement was home to as many as 2,000 people as early as 6800 BC (see Chirokitia Neolithic Settlement).
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5. Kalavassos
A Neolithic roundhouse, beehive huts and a protective wall have been excavated here (see Kalavassos).
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6. Kition
The best preserved ancient Phoenician settlement in Cyprus has a shrine of Astarte, the Asiatic fertility goddess (see Kition).
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7. Lempa
This 5,500-year-old Neolithic village has been painstakingly reconstructed by archaeologists (see Lempa Neolithic Village).
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8. Tamassos
This site was known for its copper mines (see Tamassos).
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9. Idalion
Massive walls guard this hillside Bronze Age site, where archaeologists have unearthed statues of Aphrodite (see Ancient Idalion).
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10. Makronissos Tombs
Tombs hollowed into the hillside date from the Neolithic era (see Makronissos Tombs).
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