[PIO] Donation of photographic archive to the Department of Antiquities

The Department of Antiquities of the Ministry of State for Culture announces that Dr Nicholas Stanley-Price donated yesterday to the Department of Antiquities his personal photographic archive (300 slides in total), concerning the archaeological survey carried out by Dr Stanley-Price in Cyprus in the early 1970s. In addition, Dr Stanley-Price also donated a copy of Richard Cleave's archive on "Pictorial Archive Near Eastern History. The Crusades, the segment on Cyprus."

The archives were received by the Director of the Department of Antiquities, Dr George George George at the Cyprus Museum. The Department of Antiquities would like to thank Dr Stanley-Price for his kind donation, which consists of valuable photographic material of landscapes and ancient monuments of Cyprus captured in the 1970s. The donation of photographs, letters and related archival material to the Department of Antiquities is the surest way of preserving valuable information about Cyprus' archaeological heritage.

More information about these archives will be posted on the Department of Antiquities' website once their digitisation has been completed.

Nicholas Stanley-Price received a PhD from the University of Oxford (thesis title "Early Prehistoric Settlement in Cyprus: a gazetteer of sites".) He carried out archaeological investigations and held administrative posts in the eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East for twelve years. He worked as an administrator and researcher in Jerusalem and in the Sultanate of Oman. He then worked at ICCROM (International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property) in Rome (1982-1986) and at the Getty Conservation Institute in Los Angeles (1987-1995), specializing in antiquities conservation and education. After two years as an independent expert, he worked at the Institute of Archaeology at University College London where he taught conservation and management of archaeological monuments (1998-2000), introducing a new postgraduate course on this subject. From 2000 to 2005 he was Director General of ICCROM, based in Rome, where he still resides today.

(EP/NZ)

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