Hot off the press! The 2020 discovery of an ancient villa in Britain uncovered the most important Roman mosaic found in the last century. An archaeologist explains how the mosaic offers an alternate ending to a grim tale from the Trojan War.
)—incorporated underfloor heating and a water tank, which may have been used for collecting rainwater.Archaeology students observe David Neal, an expert on mosaics, as he draws a scaled plan of the Trojan War mosaic.Further excavation also took place around the dining room that held the mosaic. Evidence was found for an earlier boundary ditch, provisionally dated to the second or third century, built during an earlier iteration of the villa.
The key discovery was that the dining room was a later addition to the building. Examination of the wall relationships indicated a major refurbishment in the third or fourth century to incorporate the triclinium and Trojan War mosaic. Whatever the reason, it seems that the grand mosaic only featured fleetingly in the life of the villa. A fireplace installed in one corner of the room and large areas of scorching across the mosaic indicate that the space was repurposed for more workaday activities, before the building finally fell into disrepair.
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