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The new research project at Pyla-Kokkinokremos (since 2014) is a joint venture between the Universities of Ghent and Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium) and the Mediterranean Archaeological Society (Greece), respectively directed by
Prof. Joachim Bretschneider, Prof. Jan Driessen and Dr. Athanasia Kanta
RECENT Events - News
RECENT Events - News
Lectures:
Nicosia 2026, 42nd Annual CAARI Archaeological Workshop, 13.06.2026: J. Bretschneider & S. Hermon: Recent Fieldwork and Research at Pyla-Kokkinokremos: New Insights into a Late Bronze Age Settlement.
Ghent 2026, Research colloquium, 29.05.2026: I. Kostopoulou, To Pour or Not to Pour: Aegean Kraters in the Cypriot Context of Pyla-Kokkinokremos.
Bern 2026, Berner Kolloquiums zur Antike, 13.05.2026: J. Bretschneider, Zypern in Zeiten des Umbruchs: Neue Ausgrabungen und Forschungen zu Pyla-Kokkinokremos um 1200 v. Chr.
Recent publications:
Bretschneider J., The short-lived settlement of Pyla-Kokkinokremos: How long is ‘short’? Some preliminary considerations, in: Urbanism in the Iron Age Levant and beyond (Orientalische Religionen in der Antike 59), 2025, 401-419.
Driessen J., Gaignerot-Driessen F. & Hermon S., Sphinx or warrior? A small, bronze head from Pyla-Kokkinokremos, Cyprus, in: Journal of Greek Archaeology 9, 2024, 305-325.
Porta F. & Cannavò V., Pyla-Kokkinokremos (Cyprus) and Late Bronze Age Mediterranean networks: The role of the pithoi, in: T. Bürge and L. Recht (eds.), Dynamics and Developments of Social Structures and Networks in Pre- and Protohistoric Cyprus, 2024.
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Sponsors
Sponsors
The Cyprus-Pyla Excavation Project is funded by:
Special Research Fund Ghent University
FWO/ G010218N “A Time Capsule of the Crisis Period”
the Rust Family Foundation for the C-PEPL of the Uclouvain
the ARC : "A World in Crisis?" Archaeological and Epigraphical Perspectives on the Late Bronze Age (13th c. B.C.) Mediterranean Systems'Collapse: a case study approach.
the Institute for Aegean Prehistory (INSTAP)
Private sponsors. All Gifts are tax deductible. Donations, mentioning CYPRUS-PYLA EXCAVATIONS, can be sent to IBAN BE29 2710 3664 0164 - BIC: GEBABEBB , or to IBAN BE22 3101 4238 2447 - BIC: BBRUBEBB
The project benefits from the aid of the Department of Antiquities: Dr. Giorgos Georgiou, Dr. Marina Solomidou-Ieronimydou, Dr. Despo Pilides, Dr. Anna Satraki, Dr. Pantelitsa Mylona and Eftychia Zachariou. We also thank the British Sovereign base for facilitating our work at the Pyla plateau.
The project is carried out in collaboration with:
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