When stains had to be cleaned from a mosaic that once decorated a lavish pleasure vessel from the first century, they were not remnants from the debauched revelries that the murderous and sex-crazed ...

An eavesdropped conversation in a bookstore several years ago led to the recent recovery of a first-century A.D. Roman mosaic ... tile work and had mounted it to a pedestal as a coffee table ...

Nemi: A looted mosaic that once decorated Roman emperor Caligula’s ship and ended up as a coffee table in New York City ... up in private collections and top museums. The Manhattan DA’s ...

No, they hadn’t seen it on Craiglist, thinking, “Wow, that marbled mosaic coffee table would look fantastic in the law library.” The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office was helping ...

Art dealer Helen Fioratti and her husband, Nereo, purchased the mosaic from an aristocratic Italian family in the 1960s and used it as a coffee table in their Manhattan apartment for some 45 years.

A New York City couple unknowingly used a mosaic commissioned by Caligula as a coffee table for 45 years. The mosaic had disappeared from Italy in 1944 when the Nazis withdrew from the country.

That is when archaeologists unearthed certain colorful stone mosaic tile. "The deck must have ... this is Helen's coffee table at her home on Park Avenue. The Helen in question is Helen Fioratti ...