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Show 25 stone Ih of period is ap· parently not ace lone duration-"l-, while copperl found in abundance". (Ser,i) The two much assumpti affinliftity that n the The,minee of the former Cyprus caused 3aOO B.C. soon the Troae and Thus read we of spoil distinot a in Myres show general. to are bronze/ the justfy latter. they always tempted the rioh that eo as afterwards dervied from the was the and Cyprus Cyprus civilizationyas were of' her neighbors. oupid1 ty ab ut to in excavators Richter and think that the relics from Hissarlik1 so + represenwed Sargon, King of Babylon, that Cyprus "to pass into over the seal of c0untries his son. the (Sayce:P F.) sea" Sar Eave been found at Naram-Sin on' Ylinders. which Cyprus 1 and of those confirm to seems .- to Later statement the Babylon. It also times gold and l500 B.C., exacted mus 5 bric s of lead\€ Ram and it Cy as minerals it was di 0 ,and trlot; er seem to I nea.r T masu. • 0 noted olaimed also it as a th Ibs' 1> P.) ftmining by Pharaoh Sixth century B. C. of Persia. situated have been 2,040 (Sayce): 110 Ibe on the north From all accQunts it would appear centers of ancient it was times befo Besides its exten ive and fertile it for early and Tho eabout copper exhausted by its vari(')us oonqu •••rs al Cyprus those Egyptian tributar1 province a taking it altogeth r, alwaye deemed agrioultural a valuable desirable acquis1ti n. It would Cy' the of the great mining one mpletely wa ExoduB, it beoa in 525 B.O rue the b lOa bricks of of the Its moet valuable minee that from perhaps lapis.lazuli.About and 29.000 lbs lapis-lazuli "about slope of Mount Olympu imported were conquered wa.s again conquered in I t was AmasisJ lead, follows: as the Pharao esseeond, oamp,". tin and Cyprus seems ttute pper and lead d appear tbat Cyprus produced in wo silver, it c on nd was mainland, whioh over eero moet th no likely that the metal culture originated spread borders on ver that the Med't rranean ea 'l'h the Mediterranean Basin t . ""'1 ",--.-t Ielands/and in the excavations of the last fifty opened up a wonderful |
