Menelaos Markides (Greek: Μενέλαος Μαρκίδης) (1878, Nicosia - 1942) was a Cypriot archaeologist and the first curator of the Cyprus Museum (1912-1931).
[1][2] He was born in Nicosia in 1878 and graduated from the Pancyprian Didaskaleion, a two year college for school teachers.
After returning to Cyprus he worked as a professor of history at the Pancyprian Gymnasium, as well as schools in Limassol, Port-Said, Athens and Caesarea.
[6] Between 1913 and 1917 Markides along with John Myres and Leonard Halford Dudley Buxton conducted systematic excavations on behalf of the Cyprus Museum at the Early-Middle Bronze Age site Vrysi tou Barba in Lapithos.
[7][8] Additionally, Markides excavated at Arpera, Skouriotissa, Katydhata, and in 1917, he excavated an Iron Age sanctuary at Arsos which was later published by the Swedish Cyprus Expedition, more specifically A. Westholm, due to his ill health.