My name is Eleanor Q. Neil, I received my PhD from Trinity College Dublin in 2024. Today, I am a postdoctoral researcher on the Lost Cities Rediscovered project, where I am working on a variety of topics related to the history of archaeology under the Ottoman Empire in the Near East. Specifically, I am interested in Cyprus and in the stories and narratives around archaeology that non-specialists tell – in the past and the present. I wrote my doctoral thesis on the role of community engagement with archaeology in Cyprus in contemporary excavations, and at Aarhus I am exploring this through new historical framings, and fieldwork.