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Faience Rhyton - Citium (13th Century B.C.)

Ingot God - Bronze Statue (12th Century B.C.)

50th Anniversary of Cyprus Football Federation

This stamp depicts a bowl of dark-grey andesite from the Neolithic Period, 7th millennium B.C., which was found at Khoirokitia, where the earliest visible remains of a house were excavated, and where the earliest known culture in Cyprus indicated a…

The stamp was issued to commemorate the birth centenary of Dr George (Nicholas) Papanicolaou (1883-1962), physiologist and microscopist, born in Kimi, Greece. He studied at Athens and Munich universities, and for most of his career was associated…

This is one of the two Christmas issues where the designer's presentation is modern and is not based on existing works of great religious worth or meaning.The set covers the holiday periods, which include Christmas, New Year and Epiphany Day. The 15…

Cyprus Cartography- Palaeography

Wright Brothers and Wright Flyer

The copper ingot depicted on this stamp was a standard monetary unit before the invention of coinage. Excavated at Engomi and dated between 1400-1250 B.C. it is today in the Cyprus Museum,in Nicosia. Strabo, in his Geographica completed in Rome c.23…

The illustrations for this Christmas set derive from the Eptakomi (a small village in the Famagusta district) Gospel which appears from cer tain language form to have been written in the 12th century. Originally it contained four Gospels but…