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A collection of 1,700-year-old Roman mosaics have returned to Israel after more than a decade of the artefacts touring some of the world’s top museums.
| 29 Jun 2022
A collection of 1,700-year-old Roman mosaics have returned to Israel after more than a decade of the artefacts touring some of the world’s top museums.
First discovered in the city of Lod in 1996, the works were only fully unearthed in 2009 by the Israel Antiquities Authority. The collection stretches 17m by 9m (56ft by 30ft), with the mosaics featuring a menagerie of animals. Archaeologists believe the mosaics adorned an affluent villa in the 3rd or 4th centuries after Lod was rebuilt as the Roman city of Diospolis.
For more than a decade, the works toured the world while Israeli authorities raised funds for a museum. The works now find a permanent home in Lod at the new Shelby White and Leon Levy Mosaic Lod Archaeological Center.
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