Tiny pieces of white, black, blue, red, yellow and grey create a picture of a chariot drawn by two white horses, driven by a bearded man wearing a crown of laurel leaves.Hermes, the messenger of the gods in ancient Greece, stands in front of the chariot.
“This mosaic, the largest on the site, measures 4.5 metres by three metres (14.8 by 9.8 feet) and is not completely uncovered,” a statement said. The mosaic dates from the 4th century BC.
Archaeologists unearthed the enormous tomb dating to the time of Alexander the Great of Macedonia in early August.
There is widespread speculation over who was buried at the site: from Roxana, Alexander’s Persian wife, to Olympias, the king’s mother, to one of his generals.
