On this day in 2023, the East Anglian Daily Times reported that a Roman mosaic was discovered buried under a pavement outside a vape shop in Red Lion Yard, Colchester. The ornate design had originally ...

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 ...

Public Domain In 2015, archaeologists in Cyprus made a remarkable discovery—an intricately designed 4th-century Roman mosaic depicting a dramatic chariot race. Unearthed in the village of Akaki, near ...

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There are glimpses of archaic symbolism throughout. On the threshold, a single Greek key wraps around itself in what is surely a reference to the waves of Roman floor mosaics, the level floor as a ...