The Bardo Museum and Roman Mosaics

Posted on February 17, 2008 by mosaicinfo

From Texas Devils in Russia Blog - I had quite a few good laughs reading the commentary on this blog - excerpts below:

It’s been said that Tunisia has too many Roman artifacts, too many mosaics. How can this be possible? Well, for one, they kind of try to protect them, but people can pretty much wander all over them at will because there isn’t enough funding to protect them, despite what can only be assumed are large donations from UNESCO. To illustrate the “too many mosaics” theme, I will show you the inside of one of the Roman villa rooms:
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Those things piled up in this hallway are 2000 year old mosaics. “Ehhh… just leave in in there. If no one knows we have them we don’t have to build a display.”
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One Response to “The Bardo Museum and Roman Mosaics”

  1. Paul, on February 17th, 2008 at 1:10 pm Said:

    Hey mosaicinfo, neat site you have here. And thanks for the web traffic, as I think this may be the first time I have ever got a link from someone outside of my immediate family ;) I hope you enjoyed my thoroughly uneducated take on a very beautiful art form.

    Paul

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