(Times of Israel) Amanda Borschel-Dan - After touring the world, Israel's most impressive mosaic will move to the Shelby White and Leon Levy Lod Mosaic Archaeological Center in 2019. The richly colorful mosaic was discovered accidentally during salvage excavations in 1996 at a central city square in Lod and then covered up again until 2009, when it began to travel. The Lod mosaic was discovered in what appears to be a large Roman villa from the Byzantine era. Made up of several panels, it is 17 meters long and 9 meters wide. It includes colorful illustrations of elephants, lions, birds, fish, crustaceans, plant life and flowers, boats, and geometric patterns.
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