Covered by a thin layer of soil, the artwork depicts a variety of hunting scenes from the Roman era. A charred wooden roof that fell atop the tiles hundreds of years ago may have preserved the ...

100 B.C.E., Roman copy of a lost Greek painting ... For nearly two centuries, this intricate artwork of over 1.9 million tesserae (the tiny stones that form the mosaic), unearthed in 1831 at ...