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Digging deeper holes: 20 years as an archaeologist in Cyprus

  • Written by: The Conversation
imageFor 20 years archaeologists from the university have been working in Cyprus.University of Sydney Paphos excavation project.

When the first shovelful of dirt was moved by Australian archaeologists in Paphos, Cyprus in May 1995, few of us thought that we would still be working on the site 20 years later.

The nature of archaeological excavation can be...

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