When stains had to be cleaned from a mosaic that once decorated a lavish pleasure vessel from the first century, they were not remnants from the debauched revelries that the murderous and sex-crazed ...

The mosaic dates to the Roman Era, which began in 64 A.D. — about 2,000 years ago — when the Roman general Pom ...

Syedra’s harbor facilitated commercial ties with major powers like Cyprus and Egypt ... Unearthed in a residential area between Syedra’s Roman bath complex and its main road, the mosaic is in ...

Credit: Tero Maaniemi / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Archaeologists in southern Turkey have uncovered a well-preserved Roman-era mosaic and an intact underground ... maritime ties with ancient civilizations such ...

When most people think of a summer in Europe, it's probably images of Italy's pastel-and-turquoise Amalfi Coast they conjure up, or maybe Greece's whitewashed islands of Mykonos and Santorini, rarely ...

The mosaic was a collaboration between Turner Prize winner Jeremy Deller and mosaicist Coralie Turpin A Roman-style mosaic has been unveiled at a sea life viewing station on the Scarborough coast.

Of course, in Cyprus, that’s been happening since the Mycenaean Greeks settled on the island 4,000 years ago and was at its height in the Roman and then Byzantine periods. The mosaics at Paphos ...

Demolition work on the Larnaca building near which the rare ancient mosaics depicting the labours of Hercules were discovered in 2016 will start on Tuesday, Larnaca municipality announced on Monday.

By understanding how works such as the Mallorcan staircase and the Roman mosaics had been fitted together and embedded ... The Princeton University Archaeological Expedition at Polis Chrysochous, ...

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 ...

Ancient Roman mosaic of Apollo, from the archaeological site of Old Paphos, Cyprus. Although the St. Catherine icon reflects Greco-Roman art traditions, it also exemplifies key elements of early ...

Despite its relatively modest dimensions, Cyprus has an incredibly ... with its Roman theatre and agora, is best-known for its intricate mosaics based on ancient Greek myths.