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.

Back in 2010, archaeologists excavating a site in the Turkish city of Kayseri uncovered remnants of a late Roman and early Byzantine residence laid with an ornate mosaic floor. It was a remarkable ...

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

Discovered on accident in Rimini, Italy, this surgeon’s house and the hooks, scalpels, and mortars inside have expanded what we knew about ancient medicine.

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...