Villa Romana del Casale in Piazza Armerina, Sicily, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Credit: Rino Porrovecchio / CC BY-SA 2.0 Archaeologists in Sicily, Italy have uncovered a striking mosaic depicting ...

PIAZZA ARMERINA, ITALY - APRIL, 24: Mosaics of the Villa Romana del Casale, large and elaborate Roman villa designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, famous for the extraordinary collection of ...

I spend most of my visit to the Villa Romana del Casale staring at the floor, my eyes drawn by the 3,500 square metres of beautiful mosaics that have been discovered in most of its 60 or so rooms.

Roman exploitation of the countryside is symbolized by the Villa Romana del Casale (in Sicily), the centre of the large estate upon which the rural economy of the Western Empire was based. The villa ...