An 800-Year-Old Design Reveals a Lost Trojan Tale in a Roman Mosaic

Troy Story: The Ketton Mosaic, Aeschylus, and Greek Mythography in Late Roman Britain

Troy Story: The Ketton Mosaic, Aeschylus, and Greek Mythography in Late Roman Britain

An 800-Year-Old Design Reveals a Lost Trojan Tale in a Roman Mosaic

Learn how a mosaic in Britain preserves a rare telling of the Trojan War once attributed to the playwright Aeschylus.

Roman Britain Mosaic Features Scenes Based on Lost Trojan War Tale - Archaeology Magazine

KETTON, ENGLAND—In 2020, a farmer in England's Rutland county notified authorities about the possibility that there was a Roman villa located on his property. A subsequent investigation carried out by the University of Leicester Archaeological Services not only confirmed the landowner’s suspicions, but revealed an extraordinary fourth-century a.d. mosaic that has been celebrated as one of the most significant Roman mosaics ever discovered in the…