Study links marble objects from Porphyreon and Chhim to quarries in Turkey, Greece. advertisement. The Jerusalem Post. Byzantine marble imports to Phoenician villages traced to Turkey, Greece.

They’re trying to pick up the pieces. Five historical mosaics commemorating Queens’ World Fairs will be demolished in the next few months — despite preservationists’ impassioned pleas to ...

Preservationists fighting to save tiled mosaics at site of World's Fair in Queens 02:27. NEW YORK -- Since 1964, visitors to Flushing Meadows-Corona Park have gazed up in awe at the Unisphere ...

The remains of at least four female heads, made out of ceramic, have been discovered at the ancient town of Porphyreon, located in modern-day Jiyeh, Lebanon. In 2013, a team of archaeologists with ...

Ceramic heads, Porphyreon, Lebanon(Adam Oleksiak/Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology) While excavating a refuse pit containing a mélange of burned animal bones, grape seeds, olive pits ...

JIYEH, LEBANON—Live Science reports that four ceramic sculptures have been partially reassembled from fragments found in a trash dump in the ancient town of Porphyreon by a team of researchers ...

MONREALE, Italy — The mosaics of a mediaeval cathedral in Sicily, built by the island’s last Norman king, are set to regain their golden lustre thanks to careful restoration work and new lighting.