mosaics

Tiger chasing ibex. Decorative border panel in the Huqoq synagogue mosaic in Israel. Credit: Jim Haberman A team of specialists and students led by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill professor Jodi Magness has uncovered a spectacular mosaic panel in the late Roman (ca. 400 C.E.) synagogue at Huqoq, an ancient Jewish village in Israel's Lower Galilee. The panel, which identifies the mosaic donors or artists, decorates…

Khirbat al-Minya: The excavation site (brown) with its sunshade canopies located on the northwestern shore of the Sea of Galilee—here viewed from the elevation of Tel Kinneret. Credit: Hans-Peter Kuhnen With the help of geomagnetic surface surveys and subsequent hands-on digging, an excavation team from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) has revealed new insights into the area in which the caliph's palace of Khirbat…

Machine Learning for Digital ArtK-nearest neighbors helps us efficiently search a multi-dimensional color space for the right image to repurpose your old images and generate beautiful mosaics.Photo Mosaic (Image by author)Here’s an example!Zoom in animation, Recommend watching in full screen. (Video by author)Technological innovation is increasing at a rapid pace and has made digital storage extremely cheap and accessible. Additionally, most people now have phones with cameras that are able to capture high quality images.…

A worker cleans a restored Roman-era mosaic ahead of its display in its hometown ahead of the inauguration of the Shelby White & Leon Levy Lod Mosaic Archaeological Center, in Lod, central Israel, Thursday, June 23, 2022. A series of well-preserved ancient Roman mosaics have returned home to the central Israel city of Lod after more than a decade touring the world's most prominent museums. Israel on Monday inaugurated a new museum to house the…