The Paphos region, a Unesco World Heritage Site, has some of the most impressive Roman mosaics in Europe, remains of a vast ...

An eavesdropped conversation in a bookstore several years ago led to the recent recovery of a first-century A.D. Roman mosaic that had been missing for over 70 years. Close-up view of a long-lost ...

Archaeologists in the U.K. have revealed how they unearthed a 1,600-year-old Roman mosaic and lifted it out of the ground. The mosaic floor, which dates from the late 3rd or early 4th century A.D., ...

An ancient Roman mosaic shows a woman fighting a wild beast in the arena — a rare depiction of a female combatant and the first known visual representation of a woman battling animals, according to a ...

A group of Italian high school students in Rome unearthed a remarkably preserved 1,800-year-old luxury Roman villa under ...

Archaeologists and townspeople are in a scramble to secure an Ancient Roman mosaic in the British county of Kent that is in danger of falling into the sea. The floor mosaic is part of a 50-dwelling ...

This story is a collaboration with Biography.com. A Roman Britain villa owner in the fourth century C.E. had quite the understanding of classical literature, and he wanted everyone around him to know ...

The Roman Empire may have fallen some 1,500 years ago, but the memory of the global kingdom is still alive and well today. A priceless Roman mosaic that dates to the Emperor Caligula — nearly 2,000 ...

Twenty years ago, construction workers in the Israeli town of Lod working under a city street came across something extraordinary: A massive mosaic, laid down almost two millennia before. Now, they’ve ...

Archaeologists in Great Britain have uncovered an intricate, 20-foot-long mosaic in the ruins of a Roman villa that are thought to depict the Greek gods Hercules and Cupid and the mythological hero ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A group of volunteers has discovered a rare Roman mosaic in Boxford, England, that they say is ...