A year ago we lost two distinguished, extraordinarily knowledgeable and helpful Editorial Advisory Board members for doing what 300,000 Cypriots have recently done—cross to the other side. In April, the gates were opened between the self-proclaimed Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) and the southern part of the island ruled by the government of Cyprus. Since then, nearly one-third of the island’s population—Turkish and Greek—has visited the other side. But last year, when I announced my intention to visit “the other side” on an archaeological tour of the island, Cypriot archaeologist Vassos Karageorghis sent me an e-mail saying that […]
