The Cyprus Museum: the island’s chronology under one roof
We recommend beginning or ending the historical journey in the island’s principal archaeological museum, where separate sites form one continuous timeline.
Routes
One day in Nicosia: from ancient writing to city streets
This route shows how a museum object, a writing system and urban architecture can form one continuous timeline.
Question for the route
How do ways of preserving memory change—from a sign on clay to a museum display and an old doorway?
Stops on this route
Cypro-Minoan writing
Cypro-Minoan writing is known from signs on clay, metal and other Late Bronze Age objects, but it has not been deciphered with certainty.
The doors of old Nicosia
We turned a walk through old Nicosia into a family game by looking for construction dates woven into the metalwork above the doors.
The Leventis Municipal Museum: the history of Nicosia from antiquity to today
We include the museum as an ideal final stop, where the whole history of the capital is assembled once again into one continuous line.