Chariot krater from Tomb RR, Dromoloaxia-Vyzakia
[Credit: Republic of Cyprus Department of Antiquities]
The Department of Antiquities inwards Republic of Cyprus announced that, during 5 weeks inwards Apr as well as June 2018, a Swedish team, headed past times Professor Peter M. Fischer from the University of Gothenburg, carried out excavations at the Late Cypriot harbour metropolis of Dromolaxia-Vyzakia (Hala Sultan Tekke). The squad consisted of 27 students as well as specialists. Amongst the latter were those trained inwards osteology, botany, conservation, Aegean as well as Near Eastern ceramics, as well as geophysical prospecting.
In June 2017, the site was surveyed amongst a magnetometer amongst x sensors mounted on a 5 thousand broad cart. This organisation allowed the mapping of 23 hectares inside a week, demonstrating rock structures as well as “pits” downwardly to a depth of simply about 1.5 m.
The architectural remains betoken to numerous man-made structures inwards the entire surface area of the survey, demonstrating the vast extent of the city. In 2018, 0.6 hectares of the magnetometer-surveyed surface area were re-investigated amongst georadar inwards social club to run across details of the buried features which facilitates the subsequent excavations.
However, the results of the georadar survey were of express value: the rigid radar attenuation at the site, due to clay-rich soil, did non permit electromagnetic waves to penetrate deeper than a few decimeters from surface.
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