Yahoo: The Lod Mosaic: A rare peace of ancient Rome on display in Israel
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lod mosaic. (photo credit: ITSIK MAROM) The main figures in this impressive piece of art shows the beauty in the natural world ...
The Lod Mosaic: A rare peace of ancient Rome on display in Israel
Archaeologists in Israel have kind of a great problem. While building a visitor center to house the Lod Mosaic, a magnificent work from 300 AD discovered near the construction site in 1996, workers ...
An ancient Roman floor recently discovered in Israel has come to Philadelphia. There are no human figures in the mosaic. No religious symbols. Nothing to show if the owner was Jewish, Christian or ...
Israel Antiquities Authority yesterday unveiled a large, 1,700-year-old mosaic floor featuring intricate patterns and images of animals, uncovered in the city of Lod, about nine miles southeast of Tel ...
JERUSALEM (AP) — A series of exceptional 1,700-year-old Roman mosaics have returned home to Israel, where the collection went on public display for the first time Monday after more than a decade ...
LOD, Israel --Israel's antiquities authority on Monday unveiled a 1,700-year-old mosaic floor that archaeologists found last year while building a visitors' center meant to display another mosaic, ...
Gizmodo: These Huge Roman Mosaics Were Hidden Under City Streets For 1,700 Years
Twenty years ago, construction workers in the Israeli town of Lod working under a city street came across something extraordinary: A massive mosaic, laid down almost two millennia before. Now, they’ve ...