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Hagia Sophia’s Marble Floors Suffer “Tremendous Damage,” Reports Say

by Sarah Rose Sharp July 8, 2022July 8, 2022

Images circulating online appear to show cracked and damaged floors caused by heavy cleaning machinery used at the historic structure.

Posted inArt

Restoring a Tiffany Mosaic and Its Ethereal Light to a Bronx Cemetery

Avatar photo by Allison Meier November 10, 2016November 10, 2016

The Tiffany-designed 1914 Swan Memorial in the Bronx’s Woodlawn Cemetery is being restored after over a century of deterioration in the open air.

Posted inIn Brief

Cheery Skeleton Mosaic Found in Turkey Says, “Enjoy Your Life” [UPDATED]

Avatar photo by Allison Meier April 25, 2016April 28, 2016

Reclining by a wine jug and a portion of bread, a cup in one bony hand, the skeleton on a 3rd-century BCE mosaic discovered in Turkey has a simple message for its viewers: “Be cheerful, enjoy your life.”

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Mosaic Possibly Depicting Alexander the Great Found in Ancient Synagogue

by Laura C. Mallonee July 20, 2015

If the mosaic truly shows Alexander, it would be the first pictorial representation of a non-Biblical story ever found in a Jewish house of worship.

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