[decimon]

Overview of the excavation site in what was the ancient city of Bamboula, a Bronze Age city that was an important trading center for the Middle East, Egypt and Greece.

[decimon]

Episkopal ping.

[hellbender]

the staircase seems to have been broken in a violent catastrophe, which throws lights on the early Late Bronze Age history in Cyprus, a period of which little is known but characterized by major social upheaval and cemeteries containing what a number of scholars have identified as mass burials.

Cyprus is prone to earthquakes. Much of the island is composed of sea floor obducted (forced up) by the continuing collision of the African and Eurasian plates. That's why there are copper deposits.

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

The time period of the great migrations, “The Peoples of the Sea.”

[B.O. Plenty]

The recent find is also particularly significant because there is another older site from the Middle Bronze Age nearby, within walking distance, of the fortress.

....and if they dig a little deeper, they will find an even older site, and so on...

....there is plenty of material for archeologists to keep them busy for a lonnnggggg time.

[csvset]

to protect an important urban economic center in the ancient world.

It's the carbon credit depository ! /s