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This year marks the 20th anniversary of the establishment of the Office of the Commissioner for the Electronic Communications and Postal Regulation (OCECPR), which operates as an Independent Service since its establishment in 2002.
The mission of…

EUROPA 2022 - STORIES AND MYTHS

The legend of Digenis Akritas
Digenis Akritas was the most courageous of all the Akrites, who guarded the borders of Byzantium. They caused fear and terror to the Saracens who came from the mountains of Central…

ANNIVERSARIES AND EVENTS

World Autism Awareness Day

The World Autism Awareness Day was established in 2007 by the United Nations (UN) and is celebrated annually on April 2nd to raise awareness of the needs of persons with autism by contributing…

Owls are nocturnal birds and formidable silent hunters. There are some 200 species around the world. They are carnivorous, eating small birds, rodents, insects and beetles. They have no teeth but tear the flesh of their prey with their hooked bills.…

Mouldmade terracotta statuette of sitting woman with a child in her arms. The worman sits on a chair with back support, resting her feet on a small foot stool. She is possibly dressed in a peplos and her hair is concealed by a veil, showing only the…

Oxhide-shaped ingot. Concave sides; four handles.

Within the framework of collaboration between Världskulturmuseerna and the UNESCO Chair on Digital Cultural Heritage at Cyprus University of Technology, the digitization of a substantial portion…

Hemispherical bowl; round base; vertical string-hole projection at rim.

Hard, buff clay; semi-lustrous, brick to orange red slip; black top and inside. Incised decoration consisting of encircling lines on base; groups of parallel, vertical zigzag…

Male, bearded head wearing headgear with three rosettes, one in front and the others above each ear. The beard is rendered by an incised line. The central part of the chin is very protruding - there is a rather sharp transition between this part of…

Slightly convex, conical foot with conical cavity underneath; short, cylindrical stem with encircling mid-ridge; conical lower body; convex mid-body; ridge between mid-body and upper body; slightly convex upper body; sharp rim; round, horizontal…

Conical base with conical cavity underneath. Short stem with encircling mid-ridge. Conical lower and mid-body. Cylindrical upper body. Sharp rim. Round, horizontal handles on mid-body. Inside decoration; six concentric circles on bottow. Twelve lines…