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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...