Be'er Shema mosaic exhibition

DECORATIVE ART: Spectacular Early Christian Mosaic Presented to the Public in Israel. Discovered 25 years ago, the huge mosaic carpet of a monastery shows life in the Holy Land 1,600 years ago, plus lion (Unattributed, Haaretz).

Exactly 25 years ago, in the year 1990, a mosaic was discovered on a farm near the ruins of Be'er Shema, south of Kibbutz Urim, and it was extraordinarily beautiful.

Now after being dug up again, cleaned, restored and relocated, the Be'er Shema (or Birsama) mosaic with no less than 55 medallions has been presented to the public in all its glory for the first time. It can be experienced at the Merhavim Regional Council complex, located in the western Negev, the Israel Antiquities Authority announced on Tuesday.

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