This book provides a comprehensive account of mosaics in the ancient world from the early pebble mosaics of Greece to the pavements of Christian churches in the East. Separate chapters in Part I cover ...

This book gives a comprehensive and fully illustrated history of mosaics in the Greek and Roman world, and studies their development over a thousand ... The Art Newspaper 'There has been a need for a ...

The mosaic, which is in "an excellent state of ... patterns discovered on the 2,500-year-old Parthenon Marbles from ancient ...

The Ancient Mesopotamian ... example would be the Greek demi-god Heracles. 2 The figure of two thirds could imply that Gilgamesh was either a genetic chimera or mosaic. Although the ancients ...

An ancient swimming pool near Corinth in Greece is still regarded 2,000 years later as an aesthetic engineering marvel.

We also created a lot of mosaics - the art of using tiny pieces of coloured glass or stone to create pictures on floors or walls. Stunning. You can find out a lot about Ancient Greece from the ...

Archaeologists in France uncovered fragments of a 2nd-century CE life-size mural of Greek hero Achilles in a Roman home near ...