Archaeologists in Cyprus made a remarkable discovery—an intricately designed 4th-century Roman mosaic depicting a dramatic ...

A massive Roman floor mosaic was just uncovered in a fourth-century C.E. Roman villa in Turkey. The ornate tiles span over ...

Roman, from Antioch, Syria (present-day Antakya, Turkey), ca. AD 400 Stone tesserae, 257.2 cm × 682.3 cm 70.AH.96.1–.5 ...

This particular pattern represents a Gordian Knot, a common motif in Roman mosiacs, and is made from small polished ... Australian troops from the Division discovered a Byzantine mosaic floor in ...

(credit: OLIVIER FITOUSSI/FLASH90) In the vicinity of the prehistoric Tel Motza Temple site, several Roman-Byzantine mosaic floors had been found, almost intact, splendid examples of Roman artwork.

This fragment of mosaic formed part of an elaborate tessellated pavement which covered the floor of a two-chambered room in a Roman building at Cherhill, near Calne. The panel shows a hunting dog ...

Wealthy Romans'villa-farms and town houses had mosaic flooring in important rooms. Two complete mosaics, found during excavations at Magnis in 1912-13, are displayed in the stairwell of the museum.

In Roman decor, elaborate mosaics transformed entire rooms ... scenes were created by setting tesserae—small pieces of stone or glass—into floors and walls. The mosaics in the collection of the J.

You can use our resources to explore what happened when in Roman Britain, create some mosaic art and build your own Roman villa. You don't even need your own slaves to do it! This simple ...