Demos Christou (Greek: Δήμος Χρήστου) (born 1937) is a Cypriot archaeologist and Director of the Department of Antiquities from 1991 to 1997.
In 1997 he earned his doctoral degree from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens with a dissertation on the funerary architecture of tombs dating to the Cypro-Archaic period.
[3] In 1979 he was tasked with heading a newly created section of the Department that focused on traditional architecture and folk art.
[1] At Kourion, Christou discovered the forum of the city, and a possible basilica with a nymphaeum[5] In 1978 he conducted a minor survey that remains unpublished.
[6] He excavated the cemetery at Vathirkakas again in the 90's,[7] and subsequently participated in the final publication of the cemetery together with prominent Prehistorians like Diane Bolger, Paul Croft, Carole McCartney, Edgar Peltenburg and Andrew Shortland.