Khirokitia
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How it came to be
Radiocarbon dates place the founding of the village of Khirokitia in southern Cyprus around 7000 BC. At its largest it covered about 3 hectares, with round houses of mudbrick and stone set around small courtyards. The dead were buried in crouched positions in pits under the house floors.
Successive walls protected the village; the stone wall survives 2.5 metres thick and up to 3 metres high, and a complex entrance to the village was found on the hilltop. Cyprus passed culture from the Near East to Europe in prehistory, and the village is a record of that process.
Porphyrios Dikaios found the site in 1934 and excavated it six times up to 1946. Only part of it has been dug, and the rest is kept as a reserve for future research. Five houses and a section of the defensive wall were reconstructed off site, and the village was inscribed in 1998.
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