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full title, "Evidence of Production of Luxury Textiles and Extraction of Copper from Unknown Part of Cypriote Bronze Age City".
The new district (photo taken from a helicopter). On the left the part that was excavated 2010-12 and in the middle the part which was discovered in 2013. Photo: Andreas Ioannou, Police Aviation Unit, Larnaka.

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1 posted on 09/07/2013 12:45:55 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv

The production of purple garments would lead me to guess this was a Phoenician colony, since they had a virtual monopoly on purple dye. The name “phoenician” actually is a reference, in Greek, to that dye they were famous for.


4 posted on 09/07/2013 1:04:32 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: SunkenCiv

I heard the found a Starbucks there too. They’re everywhere!


5 posted on 09/07/2013 1:29:35 PM PDT by pepsi_junkie (Who is John Galt?)
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