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2,000-Year-Old Mosaic of Poseidon’s Mythical Sea Horse Found Beneath Byzantine Workshop at Tralleis
Archaeologists excavating the ancient city of Tralleis in western Türkiye have uncovered an exceptionally well-preserved Roman floor mosaic depicting a hippocampus, the mythical sea horse associated with Poseidon. Dating back nearly 2,000 years, the mosaic was discovered in a newly excavated hall within the northern section of the city’s monumental bath-gymnasium complex. Significant parts of…
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Pompeii’s Lost Ceiling Reveals Dionysus and Ariadne Above an Ancient Banquet Hall
A richly painted ceiling depicting Dionysus and Ariadne, once suspended above an upstairs banquet hall in Pompeii, has been partially reconstructed from hundreds of fragments recovered beneath the room’s collapse. The restored section comes from the House with the Bakery in Regio IX. Conservators have so far reassembled more than a quarter of the original…
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Roman Mosaic in Türkiye Reveals Rare Askania Personification After 11 Years Underground
When a sewer trench was cut into a quiet street in northwestern Türkiye back in 2014, workers briefly exposed part of a Roman mosaic floor before authorities ordered the area sealed. It was too risky to investigate at the time, and too little was visible to understand what lay beneath.Eleven years later, archaeologists from the…
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Roman “Sleeping Cupid” Statue Unearthed Beneath Pula’s Streets After 2,000 Years
A remarkable discovery has once again placed Pula in the archaeological spotlight. Beneath the streets of the Croatian port city, archaeologists have uncovered a finely carved marble statue of a Sleeping Cupid, dating to the 2nd century CE. Experts describe the find as one of the most exquisite examples of ancient Roman sculpture ever found…