BIP 2024 – Excavation Week 3 – Visiting Week


In contrary to the last week, the third week remains rain-free. Instead, we had a lot of visitors on our site, some of them from high places.
On the one hand, students from the University of Cyprus came to visit us for the second time to help excavate and explore the eastern acropolis. We saw old friends from the last few years and got to know new faces.

A group photo with the students from the University of Cyprus

On the other hand, Dr. Vasiliki Kassianidou, the last year appointed Deputy Minister of Culture, paid us a visit and, together with her entourage, took a look at our excavations and the features and finds they contained. Due to her own work as an archaeologist, she looks over our area and shoulders with an appreciative look. Equally important was the visit of the Director of the Department of Antiquities, Dr. Giorgios Georgiou, also an archaeologist, who honored us with a visit. He also looked at our findings and finds with interest and understanding.

Pictures from the visits from Vasiliki Kassianidou and Giorgios Georgiou

To add a little variety and not just always receive visitors, but also visit others, in week 3 we went to the excavation in Pera-Phrangissa led by Dr. Matthias Recke, where an exceptionally exciting discovery was made.
And because that wasn’t enough with the visits, teachers from various Cypriot schools came on two days of the week and did a complete Idalion tour, to the Dali Museum and the Western Acropolis, to finally visit us while we were describing profiles and mud brick walls, hacking down in one trench and doing fine work in the other, while taking lots of photos.

The visit of the teachers, whoslipped into the role of learners here

 

Tosca Nina Negelmann