An underwater restoration project in Bacoli, Italy has revealed the marvelous marble floor of a submerged Roman villa. This comes as part of an ongoing excavation at the Submerged Archaeological ...

This large floor tile from Brading Roman Villa, Isle of Wight, is of a type called a sesquipedalis commonly used on floors supported by tile columns with underfloor heating. The surface shown here ...

The interiors of Roman villas were often lavishly decorated with painted walls and mosaic floors, and examples are found across the Roman Empire including Britain. Brading Roman Villa on the Isle ...

The floor was raised up by piles of tiles or stone ... They had lots of servants and farm workers to help run the villa. Most of the Roman villas found by archaeologists are in the south of ...