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Searching for the treasure of Ptolemy
March 9, 2021
A series of steps that currently lead to nowhere have excited the imagination of people living nearby although treasure of legend has not been found there. But what has been uncovered is an ancient water management system
By Antigoni Pitta
In the summer of 1949 a farmer was watering his artichoke plants on the outskirts of Tseri when he noticed that something odd happening. As he was watering, the water kept disappearing into the ground, sucked up by the earth.
An old legend spoke of a treasure so great it would allow all Cypriots to live without working for seven years hidden somewhere in the centre of Cyprus by King Ptolemy at the end of his reign in 58BC.