While visiting Italy in the 1960s, antiquities dealer Helen Fioratti and her Italian journalist husband acquired a souvenir: a red-and-green inlaid marble mosaic, which the couple purchased from ...

An eavesdropped conversation in a bookstore several years ago led to the recent recovery of a first-century A.D. Roman mosaic that had been missing for over 70 years. Close-up view of a long-lost ...

There are some wood-only tables for sale at Furthur on Sunset Boulevard but not many — the specialty at this furniture store is mosaic tabletops. “I love tile,” says Michelle Arias, who, with her ...

Two millennia after it served as a floor on a Roman emperor's ship and decades after it disappeared mysteriously, this mosaic returns to Italy Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism ...

A New York City couple unknowingly used a mosaic commissioned by Caligula as a coffee table for 45 years. The mosaic had disappeared from Italy in 1944 when the Nazis withdrew from the country. The ...

Long-lost mosaic commissioned by Emperor Caligula disappeared from Italian museum during second world war A priceless Roman mosaic that once decorated a ship used by the emperor Caligula was used for ...