Ancient history

The Turkish hotel suspended on the largest mosaic floor in the world

After more than 3,000 days and 6 million hours of work, the Museum Hotel Antakaya has officially opened, becoming an extraordinary museum where visitors can travel through time.

The most representative stages? From the wall of 300 BC you soon arrive at the largest mosaic floor in the world found intact, the real navel of the whole complex.

Open on an expanse of about 1,050 square meters, the covering unrolls on the ground between geometric patterns and Byzantine tesserae like a parchment, telling a story rich in symbolism which, according to scholars, dates back to the 4th century AD, when it probably formed the floor. of a large public building in ancient Antioch.

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