{"id":537,"date":"2025-06-28T10:13:53","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T17:13:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/vigla-archaeological-project\/?p=537"},"modified":"2025-06-28T10:13:53","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T17:13:53","slug":"well-well-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/vigla-archaeological-project\/2025\/06\/28\/well-well-well\/","title":{"rendered":"Well, Well, Well …"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Kendall Christensen<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was told before coming to Cyprus that it would be hot out. I knew it would be hot out. I\u2019ve been in hot places before. Well\u2026 turns out it really is warm here. So warm that all you really want to do is crawl into the deepest, darkest hole you can find, and take a nap. However, Cyprus is a wonderland of history, material culture, and geology. One might think that the exploration urge and the crawling-into-a-deep-dark-hole urge go perfectly hand-in-hand for archaeologists in Cyprus. Tragically, excavation is a rather time-consuming and meticulous process, and the trenches don\u2019t get deep and dark (or even shaded) for a good long while. Luckily, Cyprus has a wealth of archaeological parks that have already been excavated, ready for exploration by overheated yet indefatigable young archaeologists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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View from the bottom of the well at Tomb of the Kings, Tomb 8<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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POV: You’re a pottery sherd about to be excavated.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Looking at the world from the bottom of a well.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s a unique opportunity to \u2013 in one day \u2013 find yourself at the bottom of three separate wells (although truthfully, it was two wells and another hole of some sort). The tomb of the Kings Archaeological Park and the Paphos Archaeological Park both catered to the two warring desires central in the minds of all of the Reed contingent \u2013 shade (\u201cCrawling into a deep, dark hole and expiring quietly\u201d \u2013 Dr. Tom Landvatter), and to satisfy our endless curiosity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bonus lurking photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kendall Christensen I was told before coming to Cyprus that it would be hot out. I knew it would be hot out. I\u2019ve been in hot places before. Well\u2026 turns out it really is warm here. So warm that all you really want to do is crawl into the deepest, darkest hole you can find, … Continue reading “Well, Well, Well …”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1117,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/vigla-archaeological-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/vigla-archaeological-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/vigla-archaeological-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/vigla-archaeological-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1117"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/vigla-archaeological-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=537"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/vigla-archaeological-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":543,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/vigla-archaeological-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537\/revisions\/543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/vigla-archaeological-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/vigla-archaeological-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/vigla-archaeological-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}