One of the oldest settlements in Cyprus Choirokoitia is located on the top of a gently sloping hill near Larnaca. It is believed that it was based for about 9000 years ago in the Neolithic period. With its venerable age this place was even listed as a UNESCO cultural heritage.

About the people who built Choirkoitia virtually nothing is known. Their village is like no one else has ever existed on the island. So archaeologists have even come up with this "mini-civilization" separate name - preceramic Neolithic culture of Cyprus. As for the name of the city itself, it was the same name, which is a modern village situated at the foot of the hill.

The settlement consisted of a plurality of circular buildings, both residential and commercial. Often several of these buildings were located very close to each other around a kind of courtyard. Since extant only small fragments of buildings, it was decided to restore some of them to demonstrate what kind they had before. Therefore, direct to dig out the foundations were built four new houses on an ancient technology - from mud and stones. And before that it was believed that the roof structures have had the shape of a dome, but recently scientists confidently say that they were just flat.

One of the main features of this place is that its inhabitants buried their dead on the floor in their homes. To the top of the hill that housed Choirokoitia, he led stone staircase and around the entire settlement was erected wall.

Local residents, and there were about six hundred people, mostly grown cereals and engaged in cattle breeding. In addition, they collected wild fruits. Surprisingly, some scientists claim that the settlement also grew rice. Consequently, nine thousand years ago, the island was wet and swampy areas, because this culture grows only in these conditions.