Like a rug that needs straightening out.
An incredible mosaic found during the construction of the Antakya Museum Hotel, Turkey. It’s the largest single expanse of mosaic in the world covering 1050 sq. metres

Photograph by @CemalEmden/ @EmreArolatArch
Via https://www.instagram.com/p/BxF4bqcl3Y1/?utm_source=ig_share_sheet&igshid=b95h4ye1ynkf
Some more stunning images of the mosaics incorporated into the Antakya Museum Hotel complex and a plan showing the sheer scale of the archaeological site.
Photographs from https://worldarchitecture.org/architecture-projects/hznfz/antakya-museum-hotel-project-pages.html @WACommunity
The details of some of the other 10,000 sq. metres of mosaics at the Antakya Museum Hotel archaeological site in Turkey are just stunning. What an astonishing collection.

Photographs via Instagram: https://instagram.com/themuseumhotelantakya?utm_source=ig_profile_share&igshid=r7oitw9gsmh9; & https://www.instagram.com/p/BuqSIDClJpN/?utm_source=ig_share_sheet&igshid=1jshc9c5ruffq; & @EmreArolatArch/ @CemalEmden
Latest on that incredible mosaic in the @themuseumhotel https://twitter.com/rogueclassicist/status/1146047111760437254?s=21
New photos emerge of the astounding ancient mosaics found during the construction of the @themuseumhotel in Antakya, Turkey. The mosaic in the first image is utterly dazzling in its complexity.
[Images: Antakya Hotel on Instagram: https://instagram.com/themuseumhotelantakya?igshid=1xjkh02r3pcos]
Yet another glorious mosaic found at Antakya Museum Hotel. At its centre is ‘Megalopsychia’, the goddess of magnanimity—the virtue of being great of mind & heart. Though it’s those stunning array of birds that steal the limelight.

Image via @tmhantakya on Instagram.
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