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Ivory Plaque (Salamis 7th Century B.C.)

The European Postal and Telecommunication Organization specified "Musicians and Composers" as the theme for the Europa issue of 1985. Accordingly, the 6 cents illustrates clay idols of musicians from 7th/6th centuries B.C. playing the lyre, the flute…

The European Postal and Telecommunication Organization specified "Musicians and Composers" as the theme for the Europa issue of 1985. The main traditional musical instruments in Cyprus were and still are the violin, the lute and the flute, which…

This stamp depicts Leda and the Swan from a floor mosaic from the House of Dionysus, Palaeopaphos (Kouklia), 3rd century A.D. In Greek mythology there are various versions Zeus companies in the form of a swan, beside the river Eurotas, that she laid…

Emigrant Cypriots Year

The fresco depicted on this stamp is from the Church of the Holy Cross in the village of Pelendri. The original church dates from the 12th century with extensions to the North added in the 14th century and to the South most likely in the 16th…

Edmond Halley (1656-1742), astronomer and mathematician was born in London, England. He studied at Oxford but left without taking a degree to undertake cataloging the stars of the southern hemisphere. He published his cataloger in 1687 and was…

Virgin and Child Enthroned (Church of Panagia tou Araka).

Virgin and Child (Church of Agios Nicolaos tis Stegis).

Platinum Alabaster Spoon Handle (Hellenistic
Period 350-325B.C.).