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Marina Ugarković from the Institute of Archeology in Zagreb, Croatia led the excavation with the Stari Grad Museum. (all photos by Vilma Matulić; courtesy the Stari Grad Museum) A group of ancient ...

Ukraine gained independence from the Soviet Union more than 25 years ago, but vestiges of communism remain. On streets across the country, the faces of industrious peasants, inventive engineers, and ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. “Look out for the angel,” says Silvie Jacobi, giving me directions to the London School of Mosaic (LSM). After ...

The female nudes in Roman mosaics exalt beauty, the carnality and eroticism, while male bodies reflect determination, strength and power. This is one of the conclusions of research that analyzed the ...

Social media posts that circulated online in mid-May 2021 claimed to show 2,000-year-old Roman mosaics partially submerged in the Euphrates River near Zeugma, Turkey, prompting social media users to ...

When the 2010 earthquake hit Haiti, it leveled much of Jacmel’s colonial architecture, and the streets were given over to piles of rubble. In the wake of this disaster, visitors to the country’s ...

The site in northern Italy was excavated in 1922, but then reburied and mostly forgotten about. But not by archaeologists, who made “an important find” of mosaics from the third or fourth century A.D.