[SunkenCiv]

The Roman mosaic were looted and eventually sold to an American University

[lee martell]

Cue the song “Gypsy Woman” by Brian Hyland, 1970;

“From nowhere through a caravan
Around the campfire light
A lovely woman in motion
With hair as dark as night!”

[a fool in paradise]

Doesn’t it belong to Rome, not Turkey?

[Robwin]

What are the Turkish Muzzies going to do with it given that their religion strongly forbids artistic representations of the human form?

[keving]

Can’t wait until France returns Italy’s art?

[zeugma]

Hey now. I believe that mosaic is mine.

[colorado tanker]

That’s quite an image the artist created.

[rightwingcrazy]

“The mosaic goes back to AD200-300”

But the Gypsies only go back about 1000 years. Odd choice of name.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

They realize that the mohammedans will at least chip the faces away as they regard the depiction of the human face as blasphemy?

That is why when you walk the stations of the cross in Jerusalem the faces have been picked out.