A mosaic of images, at nytimes.com/science, shows a small section of freshly compacted sediment.

Another well-preserved mosaic shows a hunt, with hunters using dogs and capturing a variety of game.

Also discovered nearby, another mosaic shows grape harvesting scenes.

A golden mosaic on the inside of the roof shows alternating angels and palm trees.

Only one mosaic shows an elephant, and the animal is being crushed in the coils of a gigantic python.

Some mosaics show defeated gladiators kneeling in preparation for the moment of death.

The new mosaic also shows that the United States is no longer the undisputed economic colossus able to muscle other countries into line.

The mosaic shows the Lake of the Moon being in Florida.

Many early Christian paintings and mosaics show the peacock.

And yet these mosaics do show some notable similarities to the latter.