Hidden for decades, a mosaic that is a "key part of Rome's history" was located and returned to the Italian government, the Federal Bureau of Investigations said in a news release on Friday. In 2020, ...

An eavesdropped conversation in a bookstore several years ago led to the recent recovery of a first-century A.D. Roman mosaic that had been missing for over 70 years. Close-up view of a long-lost ...

The visual language employed in the Khresis Mosaic is highly deliberate and symbolic. Khresis is depicted holding a tray laden with finely rendered jewelry, including gold bracelets set with large ...

Marina Ugarković from the Institute of Archeology in Zagreb, Croatia led the excavation with the Stari Grad Museum. (all photos by Vilma Matulić; courtesy the Stari Grad Museum) A group of ancient ...

Two ancient Roman mosaics worth £560,000 ($700,000) have been temporarily barred from leaving the U.K., buying time for a domestic public collection to acquire them. A potential interested buyer has ...

A New York City couple unknowingly used a mosaic commissioned by Caligula as a coffee table for 45 years. The mosaic had disappeared from Italy in 1944 when the Nazis withdrew from the country. The ...

A California man was sentenced to prison for illegally importing a 2,000-pound Syrian mosaic of the Roman demigod Hercules, a historic work of art dating back to the Roman Empire, federal prosecutors ...

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The accused's lawyer now contends that the mosaic is actually a fake. The FBI seized this mosaic from the home of Mohamad Yassin Alcharihi in 2016. He is now on trial facing charges of illegally ...