Description
The greater area of the city of Pafos, which includes the ancient necropolis, known as Tombs of the Kings, was first inhabited in the Chalcolithic period when that civilization flourished on the west coast of Cyprus. The use of the area over time has left little trace of the Chalcolithic settlement, but a loom weight, which was found in the Northern Necropolis (Tombs of the Kings), bears eloquent witness to life at that time. No remains of the Early, Middle and Late Bronze Age have been found around the city, but an extensive cemetery dating to the Geometric, Archaic, Classical and Hellenistic Ages, constitutes evidence that a settlement did in fact exist.