The Cyprus Museum, also known as the Cyprus Archaeological Museum, is the oldest and largest archaeological museum in Cyprus, located on Museum Street in central Nicosia.
Building of the Cyprus Museum in Nicosia
Chalcolithic cruciform figurines found in Lemba. These are made from picrolite and on display in Gallery 1.
Sir John Linton Myres was a British archaeologist and academic, who conducted excavations in Cyprus during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Having been a fellow at Magdalen College, Oxford and
Cyprus Museum
…reports published in The Journal of Hellenic Studies from 1890 onwards. The first organised catalogue was soon compiled and published in 1899 by Sir John Myres and Max Ohnefalsch-Richter. The collections of the museum were greatly augmented by the first large scale systematic excavations carried out by the…