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Amathus still flourished and produced a distinguished patriarch of Alexandria, St. John the Merciful, as late as 606-616, and a ruined Byzantine church marks the site ; but it declined and was already almost deserted when Richard Plantagenet won Cyprus by a victory there over Isaac Comnenus in 1191.

The tombs were plundered and the stones from the beautiful edifices were brought to Limassol to be used for new constructions.

Much later, in 1869, a great number of blocks of stone from Amathus were used for the construction of the Suez Canal.