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Enormous Roman mosaic in Turkey

A huge Roman mosaic that was uncovered in southern Turkey by archaeologists from the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. The ...
At first, the archaeologists assumed the images came from Homer’s Iliad, the best-known account of the war. The scenes seemed ...
In the summer of 2020, a British family was taking a walk on its farmland in Rutland, a county in England’s East Midlands, when they came across an unlikely scattering of pottery, tiles, and oyster ...
An ancient historian at the University of Leicester has found that the Rutland mosaic presents a version of the Trojan War that differs from the story told in Homer’s Iliad. Researchers studying what ...
KETTON, ENGLAND—In 2020, a farmer in England's Rutland county notified authorities about the possibility that there was a Roman villa located on his property. A subsequent investigation carried out by ...
A shopping centre boss says a glass walkway to show-off an underground Roman Mosaic in Colchester will have “a huge positive impact” on the city. Archaeologists found a piece of Roman mosaic in 2022 ...
The team behind what has been described as "one of the most significant mosaics discovered in the UK" have revealed that it depicts an alternative "long-lost" telling of the Trojan War. The paper is ...
The hidden story behind a “remarkable” Roman mosaic uncovered in Rutland has been revealed by archaeologists. Described as “one of the most significant mosaics discovered in the UK”, the Ketton mosaic ...
A newfound mosaic draws inspiration from "Phrygians," a play by the Athenian playwright Aeschylus that survives only in bits and pieces. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...
Phainos was the most famous fisherman of his time who lived in the 2nd century AD in the ancient Greek city of Halicarnassus.