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Dreamer’s Bay: Ancient Remains in Cyprus

Posted by: Prof Simon James, Posted on: 22 July 2019 - Categories: Archaeology
A group of archaeologists around the remains of a low stone wall on a clifftop. Behind them is the sea and a curving coastline.

Regular blog readers will know that there is an annual cycle of archaeological excavations at the Dreamer’s Bay site at RAF Akrotiri. The Ancient Akrotiri Project team, which is overseen by DIO and led by the University of Leicester School …

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Digging deep on the Defence Estate

Posted by: Phil Abramson, Posted on: 24 February 2014 - Categories: Archaeology

Phil Abramson returns to tell us more about working as a DIO archaeologist. Read his first blog here. As a child my parents used to take me on weekend trips to the various stately homes around Manchester. Little Moreton Hall …

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