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 ...

Traditionally, Roman society was extremely rigid. By the first century, however, the need for capable men to run Rome’s vast empire was slowly eroding the old social barriers. The social ...

Wealthy Romans'villa-farms and town houses had mosaic flooring in important rooms. Two complete mosaics, found during excavations at Magnis in 1912-13, are displayed in the stairwell of the museum.

THE MOSAIC CHURCH is a documentary streaming on Angel Studios. In the region of Megiddo, Israel, a team of archaeologists ...

A dramatic roadside conversion turned Saul into Paul (circa AD 3 - 67) and a persecutor of Christians into one of their greatest missionaries. But in spreading the word, Paul would ruffle many ...

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 ...

JULIA: I’m in Rome, which is the capital city of Italy. And you’ve arrived just at the right time! This is a mosaic, which is a decoration made of lots of little coloured tiles. We find many ...