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

The Roman mosaic floor that I chose was found in Motza, in a garden near a modern house. I fell in love with it because of the image of the partridge, a local bird, and what it signifies.

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

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.

She restored the building using exquisite tiles and coffered wooden ceilings salvaged from convents and palaces, and filled it with beautiful pieces, such as a Roman mosaic floor (taken from ...

In our mosaic, they lie like a halo behind Christ's head. It was the symbol adopted by the Roman emperor Constantine, after his conversion to Christianity in the year 313. Our floor was almost ...

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 ...