Duke said, “You couldn’t just lift the entire floor up.” Therefore, in order to preserve all of the artwork, they carefully cut off various mosaic pieces. As a result, not every piece was the same size.
Accordingly, one of the cartons that entered this gallery weighed around a thousand pounds.
After the show is complete, the Megiddo mosaic will be returned to Israel and placed on permanent display at the precise location where it was found. When the mosaic is returned, the prisoners from Megiddo will be sent to another jail.
The IAA came under fire for permitting a significant piece of Christian history to be on exhibit at the museum in the year before the mosaic was moved to the Museum of the Bible.
