See the Outstandingly Ornate 4th Century Mosaic Floors Unearthed in an Ancient Turkish Villa

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See the Outstandingly Ornate 4th Century Mosaic Floors Unearthed in an Ancient Turkish Villa

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See the Outstandingly Ornate 4th Century Mosaic Floors Unearthed in an Ancient Turkish Villa | Artnet News

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Archaeological excavations in the Kayseri province in Turkey have turned up the largest floor mosaic in the Cappadocia region.

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Those are some spectacular patterns! They remind me of the ‘celtic knot’.

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Archaeology or archeology[a] is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of artifacts, architecture, biofacts or ecofacts, sites, and cultural landscapes.

Archaeology has various goals, which range from understanding culture history to reconstructing past lifeways to documenting and explaining changes in human societies through time.

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