A ‘City of Gold’ unearths new educational opportunities at Princeton University



By Jamie Saxon

At the beginning, surrounded by verdant farmland, the archaeological secrets of two ancient cities lay dormant below the surface on a Mediterranean island. That changed when William Childs, Professor of Art and Archaeology Emeritus, arrived at that rustic spot on the northwest coast of Cyprus in the early 1980s to explore the possibility of establishing an archaeological expedition for Princeton.

Childs brought with him a handful of graduate students who, under hardscrabble conditions, worked with basic tools

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