Puteoli was founded by the ancient Greeks around 600 B.C.E. and later became a part of the Roman Empire, serving as a vital trade center for luxury goods and grains imported from Alexandria, Egypt.

A mosaic from the floor of an ancient Roman villa has been uncovered on the seabed in the waters off Naples.. Now underwater, the marble floor would originally have been located in the “protiro ...

Digging into the chalky orange-brown soil of western Germany, archaeologists exposed the ruins of an ancient Roman military ...

Photos shared on Facebook by the Superintendent of Archaeology, Fine Arts and Landscape for the Naples Metropolitan Area show the ruins. The ruins of the 1,900-year-old villa in Miseno.

And the latest find, discovered in the Gulf of Naples, includes a restoration of a roughly 2,700-square-foot marble floor built toward the end of the Roman Empire as a reception room for a ...

Archaeology & History An Ornate Ancient Roman Mosaic Floor Turns Up in the Waters of Naples. The marble floor was once installed at the entrance to a Roman villa.

A mosaic from the floor of an ancient Roman villa has been uncovered on the seabed in the waters off Naples. Now underwater, the marble floor would originally have been located in the “protiro ...

A mosaic from the floor of an ancient Roman villa has been uncovered on the seabed in the waters off Naples. Now underwater, the marble floor would originally have been located in the “protiro ...

By Jack Guy and Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN (CNN) — A mosaic from the floor of an ancient Roman villa has been uncovered on the seabed in the waters off Naples. Now underwater, the marble floor ...