This country has been inhabited for thousands of years, and chances are high that your spade will hit an ancient ruin and ... The Roman mosaic floor that I chose was found in Motza, in a garden ...

Deep down in the ancient sunken Roman city of Baiae, a multicolored marble mosaic floor was uncovered ... the wealthiest and most elite members of Rome had their villas built, including well ...

This fragment of mosaic formed part of an elaborate tessellated pavement which covered the floor of a two-chambered room in a Roman building at Cherhill, near Calne. The panel shows a hunting dog ...

A cross inlaid in the floor of a library marks the spot where Indiana Jones has to dig to access the ancient catacombs of ... To find catacombs, go to Rome, home of some of the oldest and longest ...

On one occasion, a violent mob trapped him in a top floor apartment ... To do this, he had to take a less rigid approach to ancient Jewish customs concerning food and circumcision.

The Ancient Mesopotamian poem entitled the Epic ... two thirds could imply that Gilgamesh was either a genetic chimera or mosaic. Although the ancients Mesopotamians were aware of the concept ...

Rome and Ostia to this day are dotted with remnants of ancient Jewish history: a menorah on the bas-relief of the first-century Arch of Titus, commemorating the emperor’s sacking of Jerusalem ...