The villa floor is sprawling, comprising roughly 2,700 square feet, built towards the end of the Roman Empire. It is an opus sectile floor, a type of decorative flooring used in ancient Roman ...

North Leigh Roman Villa in Oxfordshire, which has a near complete mosaic floor, underwent conservation work in 2024 following a donation from the Michael Bishop Foundation to English Heritage.

Italian archaeologists have discovered an ancient mosaic floor in the living room of a villa that once belonged to Roman emperors. The 2,000-year-old floor was uncovered at the Pausilypon, an ...

Located near Auxerre, the grand estate once possessed an exorbitant level of wealth, with thermal baths and heated floors ...

The incredibly rich design was once the floor to a luxurious Roman villa that now rests below the waves. CLOSE. Thank you! We have emailed you a PDF version of the article you requested.

In Bacoli, an underwater restoration project has brought to light a fabulous marble floor that belonged to a Roman villa. This impressive discovery is located in the extensive Submerged Archaeological ...

A mosaic from the floor of an ancient Roman villa has been uncovered on the seabed in the waters off Naples.. Now underwater, the marble floor would originally have been located in the “protiro ...

Archaeologists have unearthed a “remarkable” Roman villa complex on a housing development site in a small English village. The complex was decorated with painted plaster, mosaics and there was ...

Fish swim by an ancient Roman mosaic once part of a wealthy villa in the city of Baiae. Edoardo Ruspantini / Campi Flegrei Archaeological Park A stunning floor mosaic that once adorned an ancient ...

North Leigh Roman Villa in Oxfordshire, which has a near complete mosaic floor, underwent conservation work in 2024 following a donation from the Michael Bishop Foundation to English Heritage.

More than 30,000 ancient coins found off the coast of Italy 00:50. Researchers studying an underwater city in Italy say they have found an ancient mosaic floor that was once the base of a Roman ...