1,600-Year-Old Mosaic, Looted From Cyprus, Found After 44 Years

The 5th-century mosaic of St. Mark the Evangelist, one of the few Byzantine religious artworks to have survived the original iconoclasts of the 8th and 9th centuries, was hewn from a church wall following the Turkish invasion of northern Cyprus in 1974. Investigator Arthur Brand (“the Indiana Jones of the art world”) found it in an apartment in Monaco.