Vounous Bowl: A 4,000-Year-Old Basin Holding 4 Miniature Cows and 18 People — that Was Buried for Mysterious Reasons in a Bronze Age Tomb in Cyprus
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Vounous Bowl: A 4,000-year-old basin holding 4 miniature cows and 18 people — that was buried for mysterious reasons in a Bronze Age tomb in Cyprus
Experts have debated the meaning of this tomb offering for decades but generally agree it depicts some sort of ceremony or ritual.
The Vunus Cup is a unique ritual artifact of the bronze age found in a tomb in northern Cyprus, and the age of the ceramic vessel is estimated between 2025 and 1850 B.C. It was discovered during the excavation of the prehistoric necropole in the Vunus Bellapais area in the 1930s by LiveScience. Despite the partial looting of the graves prior to research, archeologists were able to collect a whole collection of rich tomb pottery. It was this cup …
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