The necropolis of Enkomi was already found and investigated in 1896 by Murray, Smith and Christian. The extraordinarily rich graves led to a lot of clandestine excavations, and hundreds of tombs were plundered. The site is situated east of the village of Enkomi in a place where the plateau only has a very thin overburden. The necropolis was once surrounded by a wall. SCE investigated here from June 1930 to July 1930. They started with several trial trenches, but not very successful at first, as Byzantine houses had destroyed many of the graves. Eventually, they touched upon part of the necropolis which had never been investigated and found very rich and important graves. A total of 22 graves were uncovered. The majority of the tombs are from Late Cypriot II (1450–1200 B.C.). [Source: Translated from Marie-Louise Winbladh The sites of the Swedish Cyprus Expedition]
