JERUSALEM (AP) — A series of exceptional 1,700-year-old Roman mosaics have returned home to Israel, where the collection went on public display for the first time Monday after more than a decade ...

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., ...

Marina Ugarković from the Institute of Archeology in Zagreb, Croatia led the excavation with the Stari Grad Museum. (all photos by Vilma Matulić; courtesy the Stari Grad Museum) A group of ancient ...

SOAVE – Archaeologists have briefly revealed a well-preserved mosaic floor of an ancient Roman villa first discovered almost a century ago near the northern Italian city of Verona. The mosaic in ...

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 ...

Combat, conflict, life-or-death skirmishes, brawling — to judge from the (admittedly small) sample of nearly a dozen fragments of floor mosaics in an exhibition at the Getty Villa in Los Angeles, ...

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 ...

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 ...

A subterranean museum is set to open next month, featuring elaborate Roman mosaics discovered beneath an apartment building in the Italian capital. The site was discovered during construction work on ...

The discovery of the two mosaics in Southwark, across the Thames from the City of London, has been greeted by archaeologists as “exceptional.” By Emma Bubola LONDON — The Southwark district in London ...