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From the dawn of History, man loved symmetry. Symmetry is the most vital of aspects to achieve harmony. And harmony is God. Man built amazing monuments full of symmetry. More than five times in my life, in Athens, Rome, Paris, and Brussels (Grande…

Here we have a red polished composite vase with engraved pattern and composed of seven small and large intercommunicating jugs with double or triple necks. It belongs to the Early Bronze Age 2100-2000 B.C. a period in the history of Cyprus about…

Cypriots place great importance on blessings and wishes. They desire from the depths of their hearts that such wishes come to pass. The more virtuous is the person making the wish the higher is the probability of the wish coming true. The blessings…

Cypriots place great importance on blessings and wishes. They desire from the depths of their hearts that such wishes come to pass. The more virtuous is the person making the wish the higher is the probability of the wish coming true. The blessings…

Cypriots place great importance on blessings and wishes. They desire from the depths of their hearts that such wishes come to pass. The more virtuous is the person making the wish the higher is the probability of the wish coming true. The blessings…

Chalcedony is a finer- grained variety of quartz, which may vary in color from light brown to reddish brown; the latter is better known as carnelian. Moss agate is gray or bluish chalcedony with dark dentritic inclusions of ten of an iron compound.…

Chamaeleo chamaeleon

In 45 A.D. the Apostles Barnabas and Paul arrived in Cyprus to preach Christianity. They succeeded in converting the Roman Proconsul Sergius Paulus at Paphos, thus making Cyprus the first country to be governed by a Christian. St. Barnabas was the…

In ancient Egypt and Babylon, and to a lesser extent in Crete, sports was intended more for the enjoyment of the participating athletes and the public than an exercise in body drill. Such intentions are manifest even today in the spectacles of the…

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