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[ March 27th 2006 ]

Construction workers building near the village of Kouklia in Western Cyprus have unearthed a tomb containing a 2,500-year-old sarcophagus with vivid color illustrations from Homer's epics, Associated Press reports. The tomb, which probably belonged to an ancient warrior, had been looted during antiquity.

"The style of the decoration is unique, not so much from an artistic point of view, but for the subject and the colors used," said Pavlos Flourentzos, director of the island's antiquities department.

According to Associates Press, only two similar sarcophagi have ever been discovered in Cyprus before. One is housed in New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art and the other in the British Museum in London, but their colors are more faded, Flourentzos said.

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