A famous Roman mosaic depicting Alexander the Great is revealing new insights into antiquity. As part of an ongoing restoration, researchers have learned that the artwork’s stones came from quarries ...
With support from the Nigrán City Council and crowdfunding, the Association for the Repatriation of the Mosaic raised €58,000 ...
And the discovery of this ancient art comes thanks to ... but it’s the roughly 900-square-foot colorful mosaic that most intrigues experts. The tiles were likely kept in good condition by ...
A headless and armless small marble Greek sculpture from the Hellenistic period turned up in the trash in Thessaloniki.
Archaeologists have discovered a 1,500-year-old monastery with an intricate mosaic floor that bears a ... you go out,' reads the verse inscribed in ancient Greek that sits at the center of the ...
Archaeologists working in the ancient Greek city of Assos (Greek: Ἄσσος), located in what is now modern-day Çanakkale Province, northwestern Turkey, have uncovered a 2,200-year-old mosaic and a ...
She noted that the images in the mosaics are "very obviously modern", and they do not even pretend to "look ancient" or "bear any resemblance to any Graeco-Roman art". "As for the photo ...
The archaeological park of Herculaneum in Campania, Italy, has reopened one of its most spectacular ancient dwellings for ... known for its spectacular floor mosaics, well-preserved frescoes ...