Late-antique mosaic restored in Nahariya

DECORATIVE ART: Impressive Byzantine mosaic restored 30 years after its discovery, made available for the public. Mosaic part of church complex destroyed and burned in the Persian-Sassanid invasion of 614 CE (Judith Sudilovsky, Jerusalem Post).

Restoration of a spectacular mosaic floor from a Byzantine-period Christian basilica was recently completed in a residential neighborhood of Nahariya, and the site will now be open to the public some 30 years after it was first uncovered in a salvage excavation by the Israel Antiquities Authority.

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