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For the past five years, archaeologists at the ancient city of Stratonikeia in southwestern Turkey have been excavating a ...
The most remarkable find, however, was discovered in the state room of a domus, or a Roman house built in an urban area and ...
An ancient Roman-era settlement near Alès, France, reveals vibrant mosaic floors, smart drainage, and late-period graves.
North Leigh Roman Villa in Oxfordshire, which has a near complete mosaic floor, underwent conservation work in 2024 following a donation from the Michael Bishop Foundation to English Heritage.
Del Bufalo’s 2013 book, “Porphyry,” discussed the purple-red igneous rock that Roman emperors used for their art and architecture, and the tome displayed the mosaic in question — which ...
ROME — Italian archaeologists have again unearthed the well-preserved, colorfully patterned mosaic floors of an ancient Roman villa in a vineyard that was last excavated nearly a century ago and ...
At its peak in the first century A.D., the Roman Empire covered portions of three continents, stretching north from the United Kingdom, south to Egypt, east to Syria, and west to Portugal. Of the ...
The discovery of a previously unknown Roman villa in rural Rutland during the 2020 lockdown was one of the archaeological stories ... How we found Britain's only known Roman mosaic of the Trojan War.
Syria uncovered a large intact mosaic that dates back to the Roman era, with officials describing it as the most important archaeological discovery since the country's conflict began 11 years ago.
A team of archaeologists from OÖ Landes-Kultur GmbH and the University of Salzburg discovered three exceptionally well-preserved Roman mosaics during the excavations of a building complex of more than ...
TEL MEGIDDO, Israel (AP) — The proposed loan to the Museum of the Bible in Washington underscores the deepening ties between Israel and evangelical Christians in the U.S, whom Israel has come to ...
Books: Mystery Mosaic. 4 minute read. TIME. ... those about the cross wore armor—not of Roman soldiers but such as Cortes’ men had worn when he brought the cross and sword to Mexico 435 years ...