Australian Archaeologists in Cyprus Exhibit

An exhibition of Cyprus Antiquities from the collection of the Nicholson Museum (University of Sydney), which is considered among the most important collections of Cypriot antiquities in Australia, is going to be presented on Nov. 29 by by the Governor of New South Wales, Mari Bashir.

The exhibition is named Aphrodite’s Island: Australian Archaeologists in Cyprus and put on by the Cypriot United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) in Canberra.

Archaeology is a field which relates Australia and Cyprus in a special way, as various Australian archaeologists have worked in many excavation operations held in Cyprus since 1930.

The Museum’s Cypriot collection is one of the most important outside Cyprus. A significant part of the material has come from excavations carried out in the 1950′s by Professor J.R.B. Stewart, and later by Professor J.B. Hennessy, both of the University of Sydney. A wide range of pottery forms is on display, covering the periods from prehistory to the Hellenistic age.

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