An ancient Roman mosaic reportedly depicts a woman confronting a leopard, marking the first known visual representation of a ...

A Roman-era mosaic depicting scenes from the Trojan War discovered in Britain offers an unusual take on the legend. Instead of depicting Homer’s Iliad as originally deduced, the mosaic ties to ...

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A huge Roman mosaic that was uncovered in southern Turkey by archaeologists from the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. The well preserved tiles once decorated a bathhouse during the Roman Empire's ...

During 70 years of sporadic excavations at the Villa Romana del Casale, an elaborate Roman villa in south-central Sicily, archaeologists have uncovered some unusual mosaics beneath layers of mud and ...

A mosaic from the floor of an ancient Roman villa has been uncovered on the seabed in the waters off Naples. Now underwater, the marble floor would originally have been located in the “protiro,” or ...

SOAVE, Italy (AP) — 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. A man ...

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 ...