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Funerary Traditions and Remembrance
I have always been fascinated by funerary traditions and the way people remember and honor their dead. It’s seen throughout time and throughout different cultures, humans want something nice for their loved ones after they pass. This week we visited Amathous and the museum in Limassol. The museum contained a variety of burial artifacts from…
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Buyuk Han
When we went over to the Turkish side of Nicosia, I saw some beautiful architecture. One of these beautiful buildings was the Buyuk Han, or the Big Inn. This inn was built during the Turkish period in 1572. It is located in a traditional market center and was commissioned by the governor-general at the time.…
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Wheelchair Repair Part 2
On our way to Larnaca from Nicosia, we stopped at a few shops in an attempt to get my wheelchair tire repaired. The first place we stopped was a bike shop. The man working at the shop informed us he might be able to order the correct tube for the tire but it’d have to…
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Yoga By K.
Before traveling to Cyprus, I was doing yoga 4-6 times a week. A recent knee injury was preventing me from running and yoga became the next best thing. I wasn’t sure if I would be able to find a yoga studio in Larnaca. Most appeared online as closed or poorly advertised. I found a studio…
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Wheelchair Repair in Cyprus Part 1
I arrived in Cyprus early with some classmates to spend a few days in Nicosia. Shortly after arriving, I realized one of my wheelchair tires was completely flat, damaged by the airline. My travel buddies and I were exhausted and decided this was a tomorrow problem. When we awoke the next day around 2pm, we…
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Paphos Mosaics
Paphos is known for its intricate and remarkably preserved mosaics, they are considered among the finest in the Mediterranean and form part of Kato Pafos, which we visited on our field trip to Paphos. The mosaics were discovered in 1962, when a farmer plowing his field came across one, totally unintentionally. From then on, systematic…
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Aphrodite in Paphos
On our field trip to Paphos, I see why the Cyprus is referred to as the island of Aphrodite. In Greek mythology, this is told to be her birthplace, but it is clear here that her history on Cyprus runs deeper than even that. Before the Greeks arrived on the island in the 12th century…
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Being a Roadrunner
One thing I will always talk about is the culture of our dear Metropolitan State University. Having started my college experience at CU Boulder, I have seen two very different collegiate environments. At CU it often felt like people were there because they had to be, or as a means to the “college experience”. On…
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Gratitude
As Rachel and I sit at Terra Umbra, hunched agonizingly over our brightly colored plastic basins, feverishly scrubbing away at millennia-old sherds of amphorae and cookware, I can only think of the last hands to hold or wash this pottery, and how the people who last touched the very things I hold in my hands…
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Mustaches: A Short Visual History
Once you notice them, you can’t unsee them: the statues all have mustaches. Well, the pre-Hellenistic statues do. Let’s take a short look at some of the best mustaches in the Nicosia Museum of Cyprus. Semi-connected mustache. Elegant, geometric, works well with this statue’s bone structure. 8/10 Thin with clean jaw. Poorly considered with bone…
Vigla Archaeological Project 