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Archeologists Unearth a 1,500-year-old Byzantine monastery in Israel, Large Mosaic With Greek Inscription Found Experts recently unearthed a large Byzantine-era monastery complex that had a unique ...

and the dark red tesserae possibly from Cape Matapan in Greece. Traces of wax, mineral gypsum, and calcium oxalate were also found. These substances were probably applied to the mosaic during ...

Approximately 200 years after the Battle of Issus, the Alexander Mosaic was created for the floor ... in keeping with the Roman style of adapting Greek art as part of elite decor.

This analysis revealed that the mosaic consists of ten different colors, including shades of white, brown, red, yellow, pink, green, gray, blue ... from Cape Matapan in Greece.

According to a study published this week in the journal PLOS One, researchers identified ten colors of tesserae in the mosaic—including shades of red, yellow, green, blue, pink, white ...

While Alexander’s empire extended from Greece to present-day Pakistan ... Public domain / Wikimedia Commons The study found that the mosaic used ten distinct colors, ranging from white, red, and ...

Each piece in Unity of the Blue Ridge’s new 40-foot long prayer wall has its own history, embedded within altarlike alcoves ...

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Everywhere he goes, all day long, people ask Torsten Slok one impossible question: What does the future hold? As chief economist of Apollo Global Management Inc., an asset manager that sits atop more ...

The mosaic flooring of the fermentation rooms and the collecting vat integrated blue and white stones. The northern collecting vat floor is built of slabs, upon some of which can be still be seen ...