The Department of Antiquities, Ministry of Transport, Communications and Works, on April 26 announced the repatriation of over 80 Cypriot antiquities from the US was successfully completed.

The Department of Antiquities, of the Ministry of Transport, Communications and Works, recently announced the results of the last season of excavations at the site Agios Sozomenos-Djirpoulos, and the closure of the project Agios Sozomenos Excavations and Survey Project (ASESP) in the area, under the direction of the former curator of antiquities, Dr. Despina Pilides.

A fifth joint excavation campaign between the Universities of Ghent, Louvain and the Mediterranean Archaeological Society at Pyla -- Kokkinokremos revealed important evidence relating to the crucial period at the end of the 13th and the beginning of the 12th century BC.