An eavesdropped conversation in a bookstore several years ago led to the recent recovery of a first-century A.D. Roman mosaic that had been missing for over 70 years. Close-up view of a long-lost ...

A 2,000-year-old Roman artifact has been recovered after being used as a coffee table in a Manhattan apartment for nearly 50 years. The priceless Roman mosaic dates back to the time of emperor ...

The Roman Empire may have fallen some 1,500 years ago, but the memory of the global kingdom is still alive and well today. A priceless Roman mosaic that dates to the Emperor Caligula — nearly 2,000 ...

A New York City couple unknowingly used a mosaic commissioned by Caligula as a coffee table for 45 years. The mosaic had disappeared from Italy in 1944 when the Nazis withdrew from the country. The ...

A looted mosaic that once decorated a ship of the Roman Emperor Caligula and ended up as a coffee table in New York City finally returned home Thursday, as details emerged about the lucky break in the ...

When stains had to be cleaned from a mosaic that once decorated a lavish pleasure vessel from the first century, they were not remnants from the debauched revelries that the murderous and sex-crazed ...

New York art dealer Helen Fioratti unknowingly used an ancient Roman mosaic as a coffee table. Italian stone expert Dario Del Bufalo said Fioratti spotted the mosaic in his book and said she owned it.