Whether the famous King Teucer, founder of the city, is buried here is still in doubt. 525 B.C. Each royal tomb has a sloping carriage way leading down to the stone chamber where the king was cremated on a funeral pyre. It was the custom to have a few slave burials with the king. Outside, one usually finds the skeletons of horses and the remains of chariots. All around are large amphorae containing the incinerated remains of the dead.
Many small jars contain the inhumated remains of infants.
Interesting finds are the bronze blinkers, badges, head bands, and bits from the horses and amphorae which once contained cereals, fruit and olive oil. The tombs have all been numbered, and in particular, tomb 79 produced the richest amount of goods. Here was found a wooden throne decorated with ivory plaques, a large bronze cauldron decorated with griffin, curved bones, figurines, and many decorated amphorae and pots. All the grave goods are in the museum in South Nicosia, but the small museum nearby gives one a good idea of the extraordinary achievements in art more than two thousand years ago. It is a beehive mound made of mud bricks, and long ago some villagers tunnelled into the centre of the mound, but failed to find the tomb.