Traditional mosaics used small, uniform pieces called tesserae, but in the opus sectile technique, larger, carefully shaped pieces were fitted together like a puzzle. Knewz.com unraveled that such ...

Let’s be clear: ranking Italy’s 20 regions is a subjective and unwinnable exercise. Elsewhere I have written extensively ...

It is believed that the bikini was a 20th century invention, but an ancient mosaic reveals women in Rome wore it while ...

An ancient mosaic located near what s believed to be the site of the prophesied Armageddon contains a reference to Jesus as ...

A California man lied to U.S. customs officials when he declared he was shipping himself ceramic tiles from Turkey worth less ...

A Palmdale man was sentenced Thursday to three months in federal prison for illegally importing a 2,000-pound ancient mosaic depicting the Roman god Hercules dating from the era of the Roman ...

A California man is going to prison after federal prosecutors said he illegally shipped an ancient Roman mosaic into the U.S. Getty Images/istockphoto A California man lied to U.S. customs ...

Ravenna is on Italy’s tourist map for one reason: its 1,500-year-old churches decorated with best-in-the-West Byzantine mosaics ... the eastern Roman Empire. Imagine that it’s AD 540.

The mosaic is an antique from Syria that depicts the Greek and Roman icon Hercules as he rescues Prometheus from his eternal punishment. Authorities reported the mosaic is "15 feet long ...

New York City Ballet principal dancers Tiler Peck and Roman Mejia are engaged several years after becoming dance partners ...