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Ithaki Garden
Ithaki Garden, home of the most amazing appetizer: fried feta with honey and sesame seeds. Once again, I am back with another blog post related to food. Rightfully so, as I’ve been to this restaurant three times within a week. I’m the absolute worst at directions, so I honestly couldn’t tell you how to get…
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Elevator Mishap
In our last two weeks in Cyprus our apartment building experienced a number of issues. These issues began with the ceiling leak in our apartment which after being fixed for a few days began leaking periodically every few nights. The leak continued up until the night of the 27th right before I began my flight…
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Cyprus Bars and bar life
Like the restaurants in Cyprus the bars on the island are often far cheaper then their American counterparts and I can remember a few times where our group’s tab did not exceed 30 euro. Even when we were in a group of over eight people I do not believe our bill ever exceeded 120 euro.…
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Cyprus Restaurants
Everywhere we went in Cyprus whether it be on the boardwalk of Larnaca Beach or feet away from the border crossing in Nicosia had amazing food that was often far cheaper and far more filling than any restaurant I had been to in the United States. While in Cyprus I found myself eating out almost…
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Umm Haram Mosque:
One of the stops on our final field trip in Cyprus was to the Umm Haram mosque on the outskirts of Larnaca. The Mosque is built on the edge of the Larnaca Salt Lake and was constructed during the Ottoman occupation of the island in the mid to late 1700s. The mosque has grown to…
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Cypriot Entrepreneurship
I mentioned George in one of my previous blog posts and I wanted to tell part of his story, but I needed the chance to connect with him again so I could share some of the photos of his labor. George is a native Larnaca Cypriot around 53 years old. He has a wife, two…
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The Mosaics of Nea Paphos
Nea Paphos was a Greek and later Roman city on the coast of Cyprus west of modern day Paphos. Sometime after the Diadochi wars for the control of Alexander the Great’s empire, Nea Paphos was made the capital of the island replacing Salamis. So with that micro image of its history, you just know it…
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Phoenicians in Larnaca
Not all discoveries are made during the dig. Sometimes artifacts are not examined much before they are bagged, tagged, and taken away to storage. Once the students start doing the tedious grunt work of pottery washing, some of the missed finds come to light. In 2019, a handle for a piece of pottery was placed…
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Semitic Figurine Discovery
My one big find while excavating Vigla this year was a figurine. After my time in isolation from COVID, I had my chance to get back at digging. I was placed in a section that was initially given the designation of Stratigraphic Unit 8207 (SU8207). The way I described it to everyone was that is…
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An Athenian Story of Larnaca
I spent enough time at the ‘Meeting Pub’ for meals and a few drinks that I got to know most of the employees. One in particular was super excited to find out I was American. Most English first language speakers who would dine there would generally be Irish or from the U.K. But this young…
Vigla Archaeological Project 