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Lost Apollo Sanctuary in Cyprus Reveals 2,500-Year-Old Offerings Still Standing Where Worshippers Left Them
For more than a century, the Sanctuary of Apollo at Frangissa survived mostly as an old archaeological story. First explored in 1885, then poorly published and eventually lost from the map, the rural sanctuary near Pera Oreinis in Cyprus had become one of those places known more through fragments than through the ground itself. Now…
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Exciting Discovery in Cyprus: Stunning Statue Fragments Unearthed from the Lost Temple of Apollo
In the heart of the island of Cyprus, nestled in a secluded valley near the silent vicinity of ancient Tamassos and the peaceful outskirts of modern Nicosia (Lefkosia), a valley awakens from centuries of deep slumber. Here, the magnificent Temple of Apollo at Frangissa, briefly observed in 1885 by the German explorer Max Ohnefalsch-Richter but…