Even in those long ago times, mosaic used a lot of local and natural materials, so was sustainable even then. The Ancient Greeks used ... They brought a bright red from Egypt, called ‘Porphyry’.

It’s April in Milan, which means Design Week and Salone del Mobile, when designers, architects, editors and makers flock to ...

Meet the winners of the 23rd annual EDIDA Awards, as voted for by the Editors in Chief of the ELLE Decoration international ...

On a small rise overlooking the Great Temple sits a Byzantine church with beautiful intact mosaic floors ... Egypt and southern Arabia to the south. With trading partners across the ancient ...

He built these amazing Hellenistic cities in Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Egypt, with freedom of ... We are redoing all the mosaics on the floor. It is very difficult to find stonemasons ...

Four domes covering four mausoleums within, marble flooring, minbar with Quran inscriptions, coloured glass windows in arabesque designs, an octagonal skylight called Shokhsheikha and columns of ...

Archaeologists in Egypt have uncovered the remains of a "major" 3,400-year-old town dating to the New Kingdom that was ...

Josef Wegner/Penn Museum/Handout via REUTERS The limestone tomb chamber, dating to about 3,600 years ago, of an unknown ancient Egyptian king, discovered during excavations by Penn Museum and ...