Spoon

The scraping tool "strigilis," which has been found during the excavations in the ancient city of Teos in the Seferihisar district of İzmir and was once used to clean the bodies of gladiators and athletes from oil and sand about 2,300 years ago, has been put on display at the İzmir Archaeology Museum.

One by one, the children and adults line up for the centuries-old ritual of Holy Communion, trying to keep a proper social distance. The priest dips a spoon into the chalice of bread and wine, which the faithful believe is the body and blood of Christ, and puts it into the mouth of the first person in line.

Churches throughout Greece opened their doors to the faithful after two months Sunday, but limited the number of congregants and dispensed disinfectant outside. Communion, however, was given using the same spoon.

Amid controversy over the Church of Greece's stance on the coronavirus, Archbishop Ieronymos on Friday urged worshippers to display "a spirit of responsibility," saying their faith would not be in doubt if they didn't go to church.

Married life is definitely not a piece of cake for this pair from the Middle East, judging by what happened at their wedding reception. The couple has been joined as man and wife for just quarter of an hour when they fell out as they cut their wedding cake. The man feeds the woman some cake with a spoon as music plays in the background.

A spoon-shaped bench, a rug made out of pine logs, a door that "guarded" one home in the village of Bozhentsi one century ago?These plastic arts and several more "send" messages to the tourists that have set off for the craftsmen's street of "Etar" open-air museum to see the by-gone reality.