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.

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)