The existence of the tombs has been known since the end of the XIX century. A Chesnoloa, engaged in systematic robbery of the complex in search of treasure. In 1915-16, the then curator of the Cyprus Museum Markides unearthed some mining graves, and the honorary curator of the Paphos Museum, Loizos Filippo, began a systematic study of several tombs in 1937. But it was only in 1977 that scientific excavations were carried out by the Department of Antiquities of Cyprus, as a result of which eight large grave complexes were discovered. Translated with Google Translate