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Roman mosaics were a common feature of private homes and public buildings across the empire from Africa to Antioch. Not only are mosaics beautiful works of art in themselves but they are also an invaluable record of such everyday items as...

Join World History Encyclopedia as they chat with Flora of Flaroh Illustration, a freelance illustrator who loves to create art inspired by archaeological artefacts and myths. Kelly (WHE): What is your process in creating art based on history...

The Alexander Mosaic, dating from circa 100 BCE, depicts the Battle of Issus (333 BCE) between Alexander the Great and Darius III of Persia. The mosaic adorned one of the exedras on the north side of the peristyle of the House of the Faun...

Marble statue known as the Barberini Faun or Drunken Satyr, copy by a Hellenistic sculptor of the Pergamene school of a bronze original, circa 220 BCE. (Glyptothek, Munich)

The Alexander Mosaic, dating from circa 100 BCE, depicts the Battle of Issus (333 BCE) between Alexander the Great and Darius III of Persia. It is one of the most spectacular and recognisable depictions of Alexander the Great and Darius III...

Dionysos, Pan and a panther, from Pozzuoli (Naples) 2nd century CE. Roman copy from a Greek original, marble. Nye Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen, Denmark. Made with Memento Beta. In Greek religion and mythology, Dionysos is the god of the...