Learn how a mosaic in Britain preserves a rare telling of the Trojan War once attributed to the playwright Aeschylus.
An academic study by the University of Leicester has conclusively determined that the celebrated Roman mosaic discovered in ...
The 1,800-year-old Ketton mosaic discovered at England's Rutland villa features a rare retelling of the Trojan War myth not ...
Section of Panel 1 of the Ketton Mosaic shows Hector, prince of Troy, in his chariot. (©ULAS). A second-century Roman coin from Ilium in Turkey, labelled ‘Hector’, is an earlier example of the same ...
The team behind what has been described as "one of the most significant mosaics discovered in the UK" have revealed that it ...
The discovery of a previously unknown Roman villa in rural Rutland during the 2020 lockdown was one of the archaeological stories of the year. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn ...
Archaeologists have uncovered a rare Roman mosaic depicting a long-lost Trojan War narrative, including the weighing of ...
Archaeologists have unearthed the first Roman mosaic of its kind in the UK. Archaeologists have unearthed the first Roman mosaic of its kind in the UK. Today (Thursday 25 th November 2021), a rare ...
A Roman villa complex containing a rare mosaic has been discovered beneath a farmer’s field in Rutland, UK. Going into lockdown during the pandemic provided an unexpected boon to a farmer in Rutland, ...
A mosaic depicting scenes from Homer’s The Iliad is among the United Kingdom’s most significant discoveries of Roman mosaics in the last century—if not ever—and it was just declared a protected ...
The villa is thought to have been occupied by a wealthy individual from the late Roman period A Roman villa containing a rare mosaic that depicts scenes from Homer's Iliad has been found beneath a ...
A large chunk of history hid beneath this UK farm for centuries. Jim Irvine was meandering around his father’s farm when he noticed some odd shards which, with the help of some Google Earth searches, ...