Ancient Roman Floor Mosaic

A perfectly preserved ancient roman mosaic floor has been discovered near the northern italian city of verona.

Ancient roman floor mosaic.

Forget the joneses who could keep up with the romans. Experts found the decorated floor under a vineyard. A beautiful and remarkably well preserved mosaic floor from ancient rome has been discovered by archaeologists in northern italy. The original is a simple but brilliant idea.

Archaeologists found the well preserved tiles while conducting. In italy archaeologists have unearthed a beautiful and perfectly preserved roman mosaic floor. Roman bacchus floor mosaic by mark cartwright cc by nc sa as mosaics evolved in the 2nd century bce smaller and more precisely cut tesserae were used sometimes as small as 4 mm or less and designs employed a wide spectrum of colours with coloured grouting to match surrounding tesserae. Mosaics were used in a variety of private and public buildings.

Archaeologists were astonished by the find as it came almost a century after the. A mosaic tile floor from the third century a d. In a vineyard outside the italian city of verona under several feet of vines and dirt researchers have uncovered what appears to be a perfectly preserved mosaic floor and pieces of a villa. Ancient roman mosaic floor unearthed beneath italian vineyard the intricate multi colored tiles likely date to the third century a d.

A mosaic of the debris of a roman feast. 200s was recently unearthed dozens of feet below the surface of a vineyard near verona in. The brighon mosaic with its cherry stems is of course a direct reference to the asaraton or unswept floor motif from roman times. The pristine condition of the mosaic has amazed the archaeologists and they have hailed it as a major find.