A roman mosaic tile floor from the third century was recently unearthed below the surface of a vineyard near verona in the north of italy a find historians are calling this year s biggest.
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Mosaics otherwise known as opus tesellatum were made with small black white and coloured squares typically measuring between 0 5 and 1 5 cm but fine details were often rendered using even smaller pieces as little as 1mm in size these squares tesserae or tessellae were cut from materials such as marble tile glass smalto glass paste pottery stone and even shells.