Egypt and Libya, March 19 - April 2, 2006 / 20060331h_MuseumMosaic
Ruth Milner, rmilner plus web at bookofmarvels dot net
This is a close-up of a section showing how the artisans used very small tiles (tesserae) to work up the incredible detail of these beautiful mosaics. Dale's hand is shown for scale, so you can see that the tiniest of them are around 1/8" across - all of them set by hand in just the right arrangement. The work that must have gone into these is mind-boggling.
