The 1,600-year-old mosaic was found in the city of Al Rastan in the Homs province of central Syria. Al Rastan is built on the site where the Hellenistic city of Arethusa once stood.
Syrian authorities today unveiled a Roman-era mosaic dating back to the 4th century AD. and is considered one of “the rarest” and “most complete” ever found in the country.
The 1,600-year-old mosaic was found in the city of Al Rastan in the Homs province of central Syria.
Al Rastan is built on the site where the Hellenistic city of Arethusa once stood.
The mosaic depicts a “rare scene” in which “the details and names of the Greek kings and heroes who participated in the Trojan War are clearly visible,” Hammam Saad, director of excavations and archaeological studies at the General Directorate of Antiquities and Antiquities, told AFP. Museums.
“We don’t have any similar mosaic,” added Saad, noting that while this work is “not the oldest” in Syria, it is “the most complete and the rarest.”
“The section that has been revealed so far is 20 meters long and 6 meters wide,” he continued, pointing out that there are other sections that have yet to come to light.
A rare archaeological find has been found in the city of Al-Arstan in the province of Homs, and it is a mosaic from the Roman era that has no equal in the world, according to the information of the General Directorate of Antiquities and Museums. pic.twitter.com/dnKGJJmTfB
— Syrian Ministry of Information (@moi_syria1) October 12, 2022
This is the ninth mosaic discovered in this archaeological site.
Syria, a melting pot of many cultures over the millennia, from the Canaanites to the Umayyads and the Greeks, Romans and Byzantines in between, has abundant archaeological treasures. Some were destroyed during the war that began in 2011.
In the city of Homs, the Umm al-Zinar Church was burned and the Khalid Ibn al-Walid Mosque was damaged, while mosaics were stolen from Rastan.
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