Lod Mosaic Center Opens

Following their whirlwind tour of major museums around the world, the ancient Lod mosaics have returned home to Israel. The mosaics—which date to the late third or early fourth century C.E.—are some of the most exquisite and best-preserved mosaics ever discovered in Israel. Now housed in the Lod Mosaic Archaeological Center on the same site where they were first discovered, these beautiful mosaics are Israel’s new must-see attraction. Crafted toward the end of the Roman period, the mosaics originally paved the entry hall to an elite residence in a wealthy neighborhood of Lydda (Lod’s ancient name). The main mosaic […]