Max Ohnefalsch-Richter (7 April 18506 February 1917) was a German archaeologist and antiquities seller. He was born in Saxony in 1850 and arrived in British occupied Cyprus in 1878 to work as a journalist, in the following year he worked for the British Colonial government and the

British Museum The British Museum is a public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London. Its permanent collection of eight million works is among the largest and most comprehensive in existence. It docum ...

in carrying out excavations on behalf of Sir Charles Newton as well as private individuals. The discovered material was later sold to various European museums as well as in public auctions. In 1910, he was caught smuggling antiquities outside of Cyprus and was banned from carrying out further excavations. He carried out a number of excavations in

Cyprus Cyprus ; tr, Kıbrıs (), officially the Republic of Cyprus,, , lit: Republic of Cyprus is an island country located south of the Anatolian Peninsula in the eastern Mediterranean Sea. Its continental position is disputed; while it is geo ...

, at the sites of

Idalion Idalion or Idalium ( el, Ιδάλιον, ''Idalion'') was an ancient city in Cyprus, in modern Dali, Nicosia District. The city was founded on the copper trade in the 3rd millennium BC. Its name in the 8th century BC was "Ed-di-al" as it appears o ...

Politiko Politiko ( gr, Πολιτικό) is a village located in the Nicosia District of Cyprus. The hamlet of Filani is part of this municipality. The centre of the ancient city-kingdom Tamassos is believed to be under the village of Politiko and the ...

and

Tamassos Tamassos (Greek: Ταμασσός) or Tamasos (Greek: Τἀμασος) – names Latinized as Tamassus or Tamasus – was a city-kingdom in ancient Cyprus, one of the ten kingdoms of Cyprus. It was situated in the great central plain of the isl ...

. Together with

John Myres Sir John Linton Myres Kt OBE FBA FRAI (3 July 1869 in Preston – 6 March 1954 in Oxford) was a British archaeologist and academic, who conducted excavations in Cyprus in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Life He was the son of t ...

he published a catalogue of the

Cyprus Museum The Cyprus Museum (also known as the Cyprus Archaeological Museum) is the oldest and largest archaeological museum in Cyprus. The museum houses artifacts discovered during numerous excavations on the island. The museum is home to the most extensi ...

in 1899. He was the editor of two journals, ''The Owl. Science, Literature and Art'' (1888-1889) and ''The Journal of Cypriote Studies'', with only one issue in 1889.

Publications

* Ohnefalsch-Richter, M., 1888. Die vor-babylonischen und babylonischen Einflüsse in Hissarlik und Cypern, ''Zeitschrift für Assyriologie,'' 3, 62-68. *Ohnefalsch-Richter, M., 1889. Ledrai-Lidir and the Copper-Bronze-Age, ''The Journal of Cyprian Studies,'' 1, 1-9. *Ohnefalsch-Richter, M., 1889. Excavations for Sir Charles Newton. September and October 1882. Temenos of Artemis-Kybele at Achna, ''The Owl. Science, Literature and Art'', 10-11, 78-80, 81-86. *Ohnefalsch-Richter, M., 1889
''Ancient Places of Worship in Kypros Catalogued and Described''
Phd Thesis, University of Leipzig.1891. *Ohnefalsch-Richter, M., 1889
''Kypros, Die Bibel und Homer''
Berlin. 1893. * Ohnefalsch-Richter, M., 1889. ''Cyprus, The Bible and Homer''. London: Asher. 1893. * Myres, J. L., & Ohnefalsch-Richter, M. 1899. '' A catalogue of the Cyprus Museum with a chronicle of excavations undertaken since the British occupation and introductory notes on Cypriote Archaeology''. Clarendon Press. *Ohnefalsch-Richter, M., 1899. Neues über die auf Cypern mit Unterstützung seiner Majestät des Kaisers, der Berliner Museen und der Rudolf-Virchow-Stiftung angestellten Ausgrabungen, Verhandlungen der Berliner Gesellschaft für Anthropologie, Ethnologie und Urgeschichte, 29-78, 298-401.

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Cypriot artefacts at the British Museum
German archaeologists 1850 births 1917 deaths {{Germany-archaeologist-stub 19th-century archaeologists 20th-century archaeologists

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