The Kourion Urban Space Project is a multinational effort, committed to working in partnership with local Cypriot archaeologists and students. It is under the direction of Dr. Thomas Davis. 

In the excavations led by David Soren of the University of Arizona (1984-1987), Soren unearthed a domestic structure which came to be known as the Earthquake House. Dr. Davis, the principal investigator of the current project, served as field director of those excavations in the first two seasons. The excavations confirmed the destruction of this building by the earthquake and its lack of subsequent disturbance by revealing not only a complete artifact assemblage in situ, but also the remains of five victims that had been killed during the event. Such sudden and complete destruction makes Kourion one of only a few sites around the ancient Mediterranean to provide archaeologists with the opportunity to analyze artifact assemblages in the context of their daily use rather than after they have been discarded.