Ashmolean Museum: Presentations: Ancient Cyprus

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		Ancient Cyprus in the Ashmolean Museum

	The Myres Gallery of Ancient Cyprus
	The Cypriot gallery in the Ashmolean is called the 'Myres Room' after Professor Sir John Linton Myres, the first person to research the history of the island through controlled excavations. His work was conducted mainly for the Cyprus Exploration Fund, and he donated his share of the finds to the Ashmolean. Professor Myres was also responsible for first creating a structure for understanding the prehistory of Cyprus, and for advising the British Cypriot administration in drafting an Antiquities Law and setting up a Department of Antiquities for Cyprus in 1935. Professor Myres' material formed the foundation of the Ashmolean's interest in Ancient Cyprus, and was the stimulus for much future work within the Museum as elsewhere.
	The Myres Gallery (29) is located on the 1st floor of the building between the Drapers Gallery of the Ancient Near East (30), the Arthur Evans Gallery of Ancient Crete (28), and the Beazley Gallery of Ancient Greece(31).
	The displays in the gallery follow a traditional chronological flow from the Neolithic (first farmers) to the Medieval Period.


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