Discover a 1000-year-old ancient Roman mosaic stone in Cyprus

The ancient Roman stone mosaic reflects a fine-art mosaic civilization and a unique community activity culture excavated in Cyprus that interested archaeologists.

Accordingly, in the Cyprus region - an island located between the Syrian coast and Turkey, a group of foreign archaeologists unearthed a huge fourth-century Roman stone mosaic.

The new discovery shows that the stone mosaic is buried under smooth ground, on the mosaic with many engravings, elaborate, elaborate illustrations of a horse race of the ancient Romans in the locality. Many archaeological experts say, this is the largest, clearest, most elaborate and almost intact Roman stone mosaic to date.

Discover a 1000-year-old ancient Roman mosaic stone in Cyprus Picture 1 Mosaic of ancient Roman horse racing reflects a civilization, cultural and community-specific culture of ancient Romans on Cyprus.(Image source: EPA.)

According to the archaeologist Fryni Hadjichristof i ' The mosaic content may be reflecting a certain community culture of ancient Romans that horse racing is the most important and important form of ancient Roman times. There was a group of four horses and a bunch of horses taking turns pulling a yellow car, under the hero's whip from behind . '

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' Besides, the racecourse is the place where kings appear regularly to meet people and prove their strength on the horse's backs through horse-drawn fights, horse fights, horse racing. . ' according to Fryni Hadjichristofi.

In addition, this ancient Roman mosaic also exemplifies a particular long-standing handicraft production that stone mosaic products are the most popular and popular in that period.

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It is estimated that this Roman stone mosaic is about 1,000 years old, 11 meters long and 4 meters wide. However, this is not the only stone mosaic that a similar archaeological site called Reckless Skeleton , dating to 2,400 years old, was also found on the Turkish border.

Huynh Dung ( According to Sciencealert)