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Archaeologists Discover Mosaics of Two Fighting Cupids and a Mysterious Inscription at an Ancient Greek City Hall
New research is shedding light on the bouleuterion building that once stood in the ancient city of Teos, located in ...
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Biblical Mosaics Depicting The Story Of Elim And End Of Days Found In 1,600-Year-Old Synagogue
In the last decade, the Huqoq Excavation Project has found mosaics depicting Noah's Ark, the parting of the Red Sea, and more ...
The forgotten and overlooked Sydney art you may be standing on right now
The Melocco brothers painted in stone, and their work turned architecture into art in places nearly every Sydneysider has ...
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Ancient Mosaic floor to be displayed at FIU Frost Museum
What’s not to love about an enormous ancient mosaic floor that features a menagerie of wild and domestic mammals, a plethora of fish, two sea monsters and a pair of sailboats — all entwined in ...
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A Rare Mosaic Depicting Two Cupids in Combat and a Monumental Inscription Found in the Bouleuterion of the Ancient City of Teos
Underneath layers of built-up dirt, Mantha Zarmakoupi and colleagues began to uncover the tiled edge of at least two mosaics, spread across separate rooms dating back to the 3rd century BCE. One that ...
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Ancient genetics—Was Gilgamesh a mosaic?
The Ancient Mesopotamian poem entitled the Epic of Gilgamesh (ca. 27th century BC) 1 is famed as being the first corpus of epic literature known to man. It is also a source of much conjecture, for ...