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The palace’s bathhouse boasts a carpet-like mosaic floor measuring more than 16,000 square feet, with five circles such as this one, all made from naturally colored stone tesserae.(Courtesy Palestinian Department of Antiquities and Cultural Heritage)
In 1935, Dmitri Baramki, a young archaeologist working for the British administration in his native Palestine, began excavating three dirt mounds outside the ancient city of Jericho 25 miles east of Jerusalem. Baramki was concerned that importa
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