Saturday, July 23, 2022

Early Art Restored

After a five-year, $12 million restoration effort, one of the most elaborate and expansive mosaic floors ever discovered in the Holy Land is once again accessible to the public.


The foregoing excerpt is from an article on BIBLICAL ARCHAEOLOGY SOCIETY titled: Facelift: Revealing the Beauty of Early Islamic Art. Discovered during the 1930s, the author, Robert Bronder, describes the subject as “one of the world’s finest examples of early Islamic art—was largely inaccessible to local communities, scholars, and tourists.” Read the full article at the following link.


Facelift: Revealing the Beauty of Early Islamic Art - Biblical Archaeology Society




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