Cyprus Antiquities for Sale - Artemis Gallery

In the Late Bronze Age (ca. 600-1050 B.C.), Cyprus participated in an extensive trade network throughout the Mediterranean. Late Cypriot period goods have been found from Syro-Palestine to Sardinia and from Egypt to Bulgaria. Natural copper resources on the island played an important role in the development of the Cypriot economy, as well as outside contact and interest in the island as early as the Chalcolithic and Early Cypriot periods.

Antiquities excavated from Cyprus show a culture influenced from abroad, due to its geographic location between the great cultures of the ancient world, but which developed from these influences its own unique tradition. Though less well known than the art of Ancient Greece and Rome, ancient Cypriotic art has a charm all its own.