Asia Minor, Carthage, Crete, Greece, Sicily, Spain, and Syria have all been credited with being the birthplace of mosaic, leading one writer to theorize that the technique was “invented, forgotten, and invented again at different times and in several places of the Mediterranean basin. ”
नवव्या शतकामधील प्राचीन काळची कुट्टिमचित्रे, गुळगुळीत गोट्यांनी तयार केलेल्या साध्या रचना होत्या.