Mosaic Photo | TrekEarth

Photographer’s Note

The Bardo Museum is situated in an old palace just outside Tunis. The Bardo area is also home to a university. The museum focuses mainly on ancient roman culture but has a few rooms with older and newer stuff as well (cf. the fountain I have posted a picture of). There are very many well preserved beautiful mosaics, this is the detail of one from Althiburos. More mosaics will come.

I will post a large version as well so that you can appreciate the craftmanship here. I cropped the picture this way to be able to have a large post.

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charmante (1053) 2004-02-06 6:39

yes,romans have made such beautiful mosaics,specially in Haya-Soufia in Istanbul.great portraits of virgin mari,the christ, the emperors...you should go & se them all.(I'd like to say the location of these mosaics in relation to the monument)

Geo (1239) 2004-02-06 8:38

I love mosaics, both ancient and modern. They are another reason to travel around the Mediterranean Sea. You have chosen a nice one that makes me think we are not much different from the Romans of 2,000 years ago.

Stepan (27167) 2005-06-27 15:16

Quite a classical shot but... never seen on TE before !
A good dof and compo.
Well done.
Stéphane