A remarkable Roman mosaic found in Rutland turns out to tell a forgotten version of the Trojan War. Rather than Homer’s famous epic, it reflects a lost Greek tragedy by Aeschylus, featuring vivid ...

A mosaic dating back to the Roman period has been uncovered in northern Turkey after unauthorized digging exposed part of a buried structure in a vineyard garden. Once the discovery was reported, ...

An ancient Roman mosaic shows a woman fighting a wild beast in the arena — a rare depiction of a female combatant and the first known visual representation of a woman battling animals, according to a ...

A huge Roman mosaic that was uncovered in southern Turkey by archaeologists from the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. The well preserved tiles once decorated a bathhouse during the Roman Empire's ...

The archaeologist Jean Charles Loriquet created a copy of the mosaic. Alfonso Mañas / International Journal of the History of Sport under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 A researcher may have identified a depiction ...

When you think of a fight between an animal and a human in ancient Roman sports, the mental image is usually of a big man vs. an animal in a big arena filled with cheering spectators. In a new study, ...

Trade association members’ top terrazzo projects are vying for the industry’s highest distinction—the 2026 Job of the Year. These projects show what skilled terrazzo contractors can achieve in close ...

A 19th-century drawing buried in an obscure French archaeology book may contain the only known visual proof that women fought wild animals in Roman arenas. The figure, topless, wielding a whip, facing ...

Members of Sigma Eta Fine Arts Sorority – Epsilon enjoyed Kris Richey’s program “Mosaics: The Art of Time.” Richey showed 113 PowerPoint slides of the earliest known mosaic columns and floors found in ...

This story is a collaboration with Biography.com. A Roman Britain villa owner in the fourth century C.E. had quite the understanding of classical literature, and he wanted everyone around him to know ...