When he came across the tesserae of a mosaic, he alerted the state museum in Elazığ, Sualp told a television reporter in September. Conservators removed soil and residue from a collapsed roof to ...

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 ...

For nearly two centuries, this intricate artwork of over 1.9 million tesserae (the tiny stones that form the mosaic), unearthed in 1831 at the House of the Faun, has captivated historians and ...

Archaeologists note that some sections of the mosaic were crafted with exceptionally small tesserae. The mosaic with a central Greek inscription from the Book of Deuteronomy. Credit: Israel ...

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 ...

In unit strength method, masonry units are needed to be tested before and during construction to guarantee their sufficient strength. The values of specified compressive strength of masonry (f’m) ...

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