Mosaics
An overview of ancient mosaic floors that are featured in Biblewalks.com
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Background:
This web page lists the pages that feature ancient mosaics in Biblewalks.com.
Mosaics were a common architecture element during the Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine periods is the mosaics floor. In most of these sites the mosaics were used to decorate the public, religious and residential buildings .
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The mosaic floor, which was designed and laid out by special artists, is composed of thousands of colored stones which were laid out on a layer of cement. The mosaics depict Biblical scenes, Jewish and Christian symbols, inscriptions, nature scenes, Greek mythology stories and heroes, and other paintings.
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Links to BibleWalks sites:
The following web pages and sites have a greater number of mosaics and are recommended for further review.
*** other sites will be added soon ***
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