I am originally from Cyprus, and have a keen interest in the archaeology of religion and ethnicity due to my upbringing in a country at the intersection of three continents and populated by many ethnic groups. After finishing my secondary education, I did my undergraduate in Archaeology at the University of Cambridge, where I studied various regions of the world, as well as archaeological theory and science. While studying the region of South Asia, as well as Greece, I developed a keen interest in the archaeology of the Indo-Greek and Greco-Bactrian Kingdoms.

I continued this flexible pattern during my Master’s in Archaeology at University College London, where I studied both the Archaeology of Buddhism as well as that of the Silk Roads. These topics enhanced my understanding of religious studies, as well as hybridity and culture contact. My Master’s Thesis was on religious hybridity in the Gandhara Palettes, where I argued that elite habitus demonstrated in the palettes was a unique production based on eclectic use of markers from the Iranian, Greek and Indian cultural vocabularies.

I have also worked on the Keros Seaways Project, the Archaeology of Southwest Sardinia Project, as well as assisted in stock-taking of the archaeological collections of the Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation.