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Newly Found Roman Mosaic Is Optical Illusion


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Archaeologists studying an ancient mosaic found by workers laying cable south of Rome have been astonished to discover that it is an optical illusion. Viewed one way up it is a bald old man with a beard, but turned the other way round it is a beardless youth. Roberto Cereghino, a government archaeological official, told the Italian daily newspaper Corriere della Sera that it was "a very beautiful work, of immense significance". He said it appeared to be a depiction of Bacchus.

 

full article at the Guardian

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