Archaeologists in Spain recently made an “excepcional” — which translates to exceptional— discovery: an ancient Roman mosaic floor that includes a depiction of Medusa’s head. The intricate mosaic was ...

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While digging in a large Roman house in the Spanish city of Mérida, archaeologists uncovered a vibrant mosaic featuring geometric and plant motifs, depictions of fish and animals, and, at its center, ...

Combat. Conflict. Life or death skirmishes. Brawling. Judging from the admittedly small sample of nearly a dozen fragments of floor mosaics, several quite large, in a new exhibition at the Getty Villa ...

The tiny ancient city known as Doliche to the Romans was famous for its popularizing of the "mystery" god Jupiter Dolichenus. Not really related to the head of the Roman pantheon, this god was exotic ...

Medusa is getting a makeover. Repair work on cracks and a large hole at the Temple of the Sky at Untermyer Park and Gardens in Yonkers will allow the temple to reopen to the public and preserve the ...

This ancient mosaic floor shows scenes from a chariot race in the hippodrome. — -- Archaeologists in Cyprus have unearthed a rare mosaic floor that’s hundreds of years old and shows scenes in ...