A farmer discovered a 900-square-foot mosaic from the third century in his field in Turkey. Covered by a thin layer of soil, ...

Archaeologists think the tiles once lined a Byzantine-era monastery. The complex also included a large warehouse and ...

In Alkmaar (Netherlands), during renovation work, archaeologists unearthed an unusual 15th-century floor: cattle bones meticulously integrated into a mosaic of ceramic tiles. A bone floor in a ...

Local officials said scholars first found evidence of a villa at the site more than a century ago A Roman mosaic floor has been ... images of the well-preserved tiles buried under metres of ...

In Alkmaar (Netherlands), during renovation work, archaeologists unearthed an unusual 15th-century floor: cattle bones meticulously integrated into a mosaic of ceramic tiles. At the heart of the ...

In 2020, Britain's first known 5th Century mosaic was uncovered at Chedworth Roman Villa in Cheltenham. New soil samples taken from underneath the mosaic revealed the tiles could not have been ...

All three likely date to the 15th century. The researchers say that tiles were a common and inexpensive material in 15th-century Holland, so they don’t know why the floor’s builders used cow ...