The decorations may suggest connections to a solar cult and that the dagger had a ritual significance, a statement from the ...

Influenced by indigenous craft, the embroidery of Venetian courtiers who ruled the country beginning in 1489, and ancient Greek and Byzantine geometric patterns, Lefkara lace is made by hand in ...

They discovered a piece of history lodged in a lump of clay: a small ornamental dagger decorated with stars, crescent moons and geometric patterns. The metal detectorists, Jacek Ukowski and ...