The Great Western Railway coat of arms mosaic was unveiled last week at Didcot Railway Centre after previously being at ...

According to a study published this week in the journal PLOS One, researchers identified ten colors of tesserae in the mosaic—including shades of red, yellow, green, blue, pink, white ...

Study reveals origins of materials in Alexander Mosaic Over 2 million tesserae used in the Alexander Mosaic Key insights into preserving the iconic Alexander Mosaic ...

Recent discoveries reveal its tesserae hold secrets of the Roman Empire’s vast reach. How did this intricate artwork connect a world in conquest? This distribution underscores the Roman Empire’s ...

This mosaic, with monumental dimensions (583 x 325 cm) and composed of approximately 1.9 million tesserae, depicts the Battle of Issus, where Alexander the Great led the Macedonians to victory against ...

The mosaic is made up of millions of tiny tesserae – small, regular pieces of hard material used in mosaics – that cover an area measuring 583 by 325 centimeters (230 by 128 inches).

Stones, or tesserae, were identified from quarries in Italy, Spain, and Tunisia, showing a wide-ranging supply network used during Roman times. The mosaic, estimated to be 2,000 years old, was buried ...

Alexander Mosaic, c. 100 B.C.E., Roman copy of a lost Greek painting, House of the Faun, Pompeii. When Mount Vesuvius buried Pompeii under a torrent of ash in A.D. 79, it also preserved one of the ...

While Alexander's empire stretched from the Balkans to modern-day Pakistan, these bits of stone and mineral, or tesserae, came from quarries across Europe — including in Italy and the Iberian ...