The Department of Antiquities of the Deputy Ministry of Culture announced the completion of the 2024 final excavation season of the Kourion Urban Space Project (KUSP), under the direction of Dr Thomas W. Davis, Associate Director of the Lanier Centre for Archaeology at Lipscomb University, Dr Laura A. Swantek (Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Phoenix College), and Dr Lucas Grimsley (Lanier Centre for Archaeology, Lipscomb University). KUSP partners include the Australian Institute of Archaeology and the University of Cyprus.

The Larnaka Municipal Gallery – Christoforou Collection has opened this summer and will exhibit around 150 artworks by Greek painters and engravers of the 19th - 20th centuries; exhibited with the kind permission of retired Cypriot diplomat Charalambos Christoforou and his spouse Maria Christoforou. 

The inauguration of the photographic exhibition ‘KTICIC’ by the Press and Information Office (PIO) in collaboration with the ‘Nicosia International Festival’ took place on December 07, at the Municipal Theatre of Nicosia.

Athienou Municipality has one of the richest histories of traditional food production in Larnaca region - and the island - and the most elements (eight) included on the UNESCO National Intangible Cultural Heritage List, with five of those related to food (including Lokoumi wedding sweet, bread making tradition and ‘kleftiko’ meat dish that is cooked slowly in a sealed pot; traditionally a clay pot in a clay oven). 

The Department of Antiquities, Deputy Ministry of Culture, announced that a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between the Department of Antiquities and the Cyprus Marine and Maritime Institute (CMMI) on July 21.

The Department of Antiquities, Ministry of Transport, Communications and Works, on April 26 announced the repatriation of over 80 Cypriot antiquities from the US was successfully completed.