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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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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 ... the city of Teos was in antiquity a major hub ...
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Ancient genetics—Was Gilgamesh a mosaic?
The Ancient Mesopotamian poem entitled the Epic ... two thirds could imply that Gilgamesh was either a genetic chimera or mosaic. Although the ancients Mesopotamians were aware of the concept ...
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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 ... Then there’s the mystery of who commissioned it. The Frost Art Museum at FIU opens its exhibition ...