Professor Vassos Karageorghis FBA

Fellow type
International Fellow
Year elected
1973
Year of death
2021
Subjects
Archaeology
Sections
Archaeology

Last post

Director, Foundation 'Anastasios G Leventis', Nicosia, Cyprus; Adjunct Professor, The Cyprus Institute;

Past appointments

Cyprus Academy of Sciences, Letters and Arts Member of the founding committee

2016 -

The Cyprus Institute Adjunct Professor

2013 -

Harvard University Visiting Scholar

1997 -

University of Cyprus Professor of Archaeology, Director of the Archaeological Research Unit

1992 - 1996

The Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton Visiting Mellon Professor

1989 - 1990

Adviser to the President of the Republic of Cyprus

1989 - 1992

Foundation 'Anastasios G. Leventis', Nicosia Director

1989 - 2010

University of California, Berkeley Regents Lecturer

1967 - 1967

Republic of Cyprus Director of Antiquities

1963 - 1989

Cyprus Museum Assistant Curator, Curator

1952 - 1963

Publications

Palaepaphos–Skales: Tombs of the Late Cypriote IIIB and Cyprogeometric periods

Vassos Karageorghis and Efstathios Raptou - Published in 2016

Excavations of 2008 and 2011

Necropoleis at Palaepaphos from the end of the Late Bronze Age to the Cypro-Archaic period

Vassos Karageorghis and Efstathios Raptou - Published in 2014

Kypriaka in Crete: from the Bronze Age to the end of the Archaic period

Vassos Karageorghis, Athanasia Kanta - Published in 2014

Pyla-Kokkinokremos: a late 13th-century BC fortified settlement in Cyprus

Vassos Karageorghis, Athanasia Kanta - Published in 2014

Excavation 2010-2011

Ancient Cypriote art in the Leto and Costakis Severis Collection

Vassos Karageoghis - Published in 2010

Cypriot antiquities in the Phylactou Collection

Vassos Georghis - Published in 2010

Cypriote art in the Pitt Rivers Museum University of Oxford

Vassos Karageorghis - Published in 2009

A lifetime in the archaeology of Cyprus

Vassos Karageorghis - Published in 2007

Aspects of everyday life in Ancient Cyprus: iconographic representations

Vassos Karageorghis - Published in 2006

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