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According to the Paphos museum page, finds from the settlement at Kissonerga-Skalia and from the cemeteries represent the Early and Middle Bronze Age together, 2500-1650 BCE. The source does not separate the two, so this article does not either.
At Kathari in Kition five successive temples and copper-smelting workshops date from the end of the 13th to the end of the 11th century BCE; the Phoenicians built the temple of Astarte around 850 BCE, says the Department of Antiquities. What links the two is not stated.
The Department of Antiquities of Cyprus links Maa-Palaeokastro to the settlement of refugees from the Aegean around 1200 BCE. According to the Department, the site was destroyed around 1175, probably by pirates, rebuilt, and abandoned around 1150.
According to UNESCO, the Mycenaeans erected the temple of Aphrodite at Kouklia in the 12th century BC; it was used until the Roman period. The Department of Antiquities adds that it was western Cyprus's great religious centre and that activity ceased in the 4th century CE.
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