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Four rare clay coffins, estimated to be 2,000 years old, have been found by crews working to complete a sidewalk in the coastal resort of Protaras, Cyprus.

Maria Hadjicosti,coach bags director of the Cyprus Antiquities Department, said the coffins adorned with floral patterns date from the Hellenistic to early Roman periods, between 300 B.C. and 100 A.D.

Hadjicosti said similar coffins dating back to the same period have been discovered previously. Two such coffins are on display at the capital's Archaeological Museum, while three others remain in storage there. But she called the latest find 'significant' because the coffins were untouched by grave robbers.

She said othercoach handbags items found at the site included human skeletal remains, glass vessels and terra cotta urns, indicating that the cemetery was in use over a long period of time.

Excavations on Cyprus have uncovered settlements dating back to around 9,000 B.C. Cyprus then saw successive waves of colonization, including Phoenicians, Mycenaean Greeks, Romans and, in the Middle Ages, Franks and Venetians.

The island was conquered by Ottoman Turks in 1571 and became part of the British Empire in 1878 before gaining independence in cheap coach bags1960.

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