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Ann Terry with Kira Wencek and Wesley Hale — Ann Terry, center, a URI lecturer in art history, studies 1,500-year-old Byzantine mosaics in an artifact storage building in Polis Chrysochous, on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus, with Kira Wencek ’19 and Wesley Hale, M.A, ’18 in history. Photo courtesy of Ann Terry

URI art history lecturer, students study Byzantine mosaics on Cyprus

Really, archeology isn’t a lot like “Indiana Jones.” Just ask Ann Terry.

Terry, a University of Rhode Island lecturer of art history, spent three weeks last spring studying fragments of 1,500-year-old Byzantine mosaics on the island of Cyprus in the Mediterranean. The work – sorting trays of artifacts and cleaning, classifying and documenting thousands of mosaic pieces – could be laborious and boring, she said.

But the project may eventually add to the knowledge of an area that passed…