The art of creating mosaics is ancient, but its appeal in 21st-century homes is easy to piece together. Eye-catching mosaics are working their way up from floors onto kitchen backsplashes and into ...

African shell mosaics are a unique and beautiful way to add a cultural touch to your home decor. These intricate designs, ...

August 14, 2006 We’ve previously written about the advent of digital technology in creating design tools for wallpaper, drapes, and carpets, even fingernails, and the extraordinary results that can be ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. “Mosaic is such a noble material. Its value is in decoration; it’s not a commodity,” says Rossella Bisazza, ...

An ancient historian at the University of Leicester has found that the Rutland mosaic presents a version of the Trojan War that differs from the story told in Homer’s Iliad. Researchers studying what ...

Learn how a mosaic in Britain preserves a rare telling of the Trojan War once attributed to the playwright Aeschylus.

A rare mosaic found beneath a farmer's field actually depicts a different historical tale than researchers previously thought. It was initially believed the mosaic - which was discovered in Rutland - ...

An intricate Roman floor in rural England has turned out to be far more than decoration. Archaeologists now argue that its ...