On our next visit, we decided first to visit Vathyrkakas Cemetery, which was on the other side of the canyon. From there, we could see the hill I had been standing on before. Below that, you can just make out some green tarpaulin. That has been put there to protect whatever was being excavated. We will visit there later.

This cemetery is slightly different. There are a lot of bigger chambers here compared to the round pits on the opposite side of the canyon.

This is what the official website has to say:

Souskiou-Vathyrkakas... ...is widely acknowledged as a remarkable pre-Bronze Age necropolis. The site substantially pre-dates the time when cemeteries regularly served as venues for burial on the island, in the Bronze Age and later. Its tombs are typically deep, bell-shaped shafts, whereas contemporary graves at other sites are shallow pits. Its fame rests especially on the abundance and quality of objects allegedly looted from the site and now in private collections. They include remarkable cruciform figurines, the ideological hallmark of the Erimi culture, and outstanding works such as a stone sculpture in the J. Paul Getty Museum and a seated ceramic figure in the Pierides Collection.

Source: souskiou.com

More from the same website:

The four expeditions investigated what we can now see as a 30 x 60m area of a linear cemetery known as Souskiou-Vathyrkakas Cemetery 1. Tombs cluster unevenly in a c.30m wide funerary zone along the southern lip of the ravine, opposite the contemporary settlement on other side of a stream. It may be part of a larger cemetery comprised of a number of foci. The excavated portion of Cemetery 1 comprises some 100 rock-cut features in a c. 1800 m2 exposure, but it is important to appreciate the varied chronology and purposes of human activities at the locale.

In terms of Cypriot funerary practices, the chief innovations at Vathyrkakas are the existence of a cemetery, more spacious facilities for a multiple inhumation burial system, the elaboration of tomb types, and the disposal of objects as part of the funerary rituals. These mark a considerable break with preceding and succeeding customs, one that the current project seeks to understand. Within the spectrum of tomb types, there is one that stands out as truly exceptional.

So if all this was cleared of vegation during the 2011 excavations, we have an idea of how soon nature can reclaim her territory. There is more information on the website which I won't repeat here. If you are interested it will give you plenty of information.

I wonder which of the tombs here was the tomb referred to as Tomb 73 in the article quoted above? It is hard to tell from the photograph shown on the website.