Mosaics
An overview of ancient mosaic floors that are featured in Biblewalks.com
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This web page provides an overview on Mosaic floors, and 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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The following web pages and sites have a greater number of mosaics, and are recommended for further review.
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Mosaics Museum:
A unique museum has opened in 2009 in Ma'ale Adummim, on the side of the Jerusalem-Jericho road. The museum is located on the site of the ancient inn (Khan), and the museum displays archaeological findings which were excavated in the West Bank and Gaza. The museum has both an outdoor and indoor sections, and the majority of the findings are sections of the mosaic floors collected from different sites.
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Mosaics floor News:
- Spectacular Mosaic floor restored and on display (March 2009)
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Mosaics Museum "The Good Samaritan" opens to the public - first in Israel
(June 2009)
Check our review of the museum
- Most impressive/Largest mosaic floor to be re-exposed in Lod (Lydda) (June 2009)
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