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Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz

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Khirbat al-Minya: This section of the excavation shows, to the left, the mosaic floor with the Nile plants and, to the right, above a filled-in cistern, the remains of another mosaic floor that was probably almost totally removed in the early Middle Ages.

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photo/©: Hans-Peter Kuhnen

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