Man the Roman's knew how make things last forever. Mosaics, roads, buildings. Lots of them still around after 2000 years, even through natural disasters.
Roman mosaics and abundance of other valuable artifacts ranging from frescoes to burial objects -- lay undiscovered for millennia. It was only in 2000, after suspected vandalized artifacts appeared in museums and private collections and when plans for new dams on the Euphrates meant that much of Zeugma would be forever flooded, that the race was on. The result was an ambitious excavation project sponsored by the Turkish government, the California-based Packard Humanities Institute and American universities. The excavations discovered homes, public buildings and market squares that contained one of the largest and most important collections of Roman mosaic art ever found. Ultimately, a decision was made to build a museum to preserve and display the extraordinary mosaics from what has been called “one of the most important cultural heritage sites in Turkey.”
Now, Zeugma Mosaic Museum is the biggest mosaic museum in the world, containing 1700 m2 of mosaics.
IntrovertSwag on May 15th, 2021 at 13:48 UTC »
Man the Roman's knew how make things last forever. Mosaics, roads, buildings. Lots of them still around after 2000 years, even through natural disasters.
Halicin on May 15th, 2021 at 14:21 UTC »
Roman mosaics and abundance of other valuable artifacts ranging from frescoes to burial objects -- lay undiscovered for millennia. It was only in 2000, after suspected vandalized artifacts appeared in museums and private collections and when plans for new dams on the Euphrates meant that much of Zeugma would be forever flooded, that the race was on. The result was an ambitious excavation project sponsored by the Turkish government, the California-based Packard Humanities Institute and American universities. The excavations discovered homes, public buildings and market squares that contained one of the largest and most important collections of Roman mosaic art ever found. Ultimately, a decision was made to build a museum to preserve and display the extraordinary mosaics from what has been called “one of the most important cultural heritage sites in Turkey.”
Now, Zeugma Mosaic Museum is the biggest mosaic museum in the world, containing 1700 m2 of mosaics.
jshultz5259 on May 15th, 2021 at 14:21 UTC »
And I can't get the tile grout in my bathroom to quit cracking.