An eavesdropped conversation in a bookstore several years ago led to the recent recovery of a first-century A.D. Roman mosaic that had been missing for over 70 years. In 2013, Italian architect ...

While visiting Italy in the 1960s, antiquities dealer Helen Fioratti and her Italian journalist husband acquired a souvenir: a red-and-green inlaid marble mosaic, which the couple purchased from ...

The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office was helping Italian authorities, who said the coffee table was actually a mosaic that decorated a pleasure barge belonging to Emperor Caligula in about A ...

Roman Emperor Caligula's coffee table 04:34. When stains had to be cleaned from a mosaic that once decorated a lavish pleasure vessel from the first century, they were not remnants from the ...

A New York City couple unknowingly used a mosaic commissioned by Caligula as a coffee table for 45 years. The mosaic had disappeared from Italy in 1944 when the Nazis withdrew from the country.

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