A Palestinian farmer has discovered an ornate Byzantine floor mosaic while trying to plant an olive tree on his land in the Gaza Strip. Salman al-Nabahin said he and his son had been digging into ...

“I searched on the internet … We learned it was a mosaic belonging to the Byzantine era,” said the ... Bureij refugee camp in the center of the Gaza Strip said. The Palestinian Ministry ...

JERUSALEM (JTA) — An 1,800-year-old Byzantine-era Roman mosaic bearing an inscription in ancient Greek was discovered at a national park in Israel. The multicolored mosaic was unearthed in ...

This photograph shows a mosaic pavement (Byzantine period, 579 AD) collected in 1997 from the site of a vanished Byzantine church in Deir-el-Balah in the Gaza Strip, displayed during an exhibition ...

Over the past year the Mosaic Rooms has been a vocal supporter of a ceasefire in Gaza. Because of its stated mandate to educate the public about Palestine and the Arab world, it has been able to ...

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A Turkish farmer in the eastern Anatolia region accidentally discovered a mosaic floor with animal figures believed to date from the Roman or early Byzantine period while digging a hole to plant ...

In the Byzantine era, vinum Gazetum, or Gaza wine, was shipped from the port of Gaza throughout the Mediterranean and beyond. “Gaza wine was considered a sweet, white luxury wine, praised by ...

This mosaic ... ties to Jesus or David in Byzantine art. Sadly, the main figure's face was damaged shortly after its discovery. Following Israel's capture of the Gaza Strip in the 1967 Six ...