Overview of Cypriot history from Antiquity to AD 1600 presented originally in a series of lectures delivered at Ball University. Contributors are: Cyprus from Earliest Times to AD 1600 (John Koumoulides); The art of Cyprus at the end of the Late Bronze Age (Vassos Karageorghis); Art and architecture in Byzantine Cyprus (Terence Mullaly); Gothic and Renaissance architecture in Cyprus (Terence Mullaly); Some cultural implications of the Latin conquest of Cyprus (Peter W Edbury).