There were shades of blue, yellow, red, pink, green, white, black, gray, brown, and a variety of micro-textures. The mosaic ...

An iconic Alexander the Great mosaic found at Pompeii ... The 10 colors included shades of white, brown, red, yellow, pink, ...

A famous Roman mosaic depicting Alexander the Great is revealing new insights ... green, blue, pink, white, black, gray and brown—as well as a variety of “micro-textures” that were ...

He would come to be known as Alexander the Great. Alexander ... places as just sites and see them as cities.” A large black-and-white mosaic decorates the floor of the House of Dionysus at ...

Alexander the Great is remembered today for ... were composed of ten types of colors – white, brown, red, yellow, pink, green, grey, blue, black, and glassy (vitreous) – that were arranged ...

Few figures from the ancient world grip the modern imagination as powerfully as Alexander the Great and Cleopatra VII, the last pharaoh. They are the bookends for Egyptologist Toby Wilkinson’s new ...

Black smoke rising from the Sistine Chapel ... be burned, "thus producing a great deal more white smoke for the final ballot and making it truly visible," historian Frederic J.