Tunisia’s Bardo museum, attacked by terrorists, is home to amazing Roman treasures

The Bardo museum in Tunis, which was attacked by gunmen on Wednesday, may not be as famous as the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York or the British Museum. But it houses one of the world’s greatest collections of ancient mosaics.

“The collection of mosaics — that is, pavement mosaics and wall mosaics — is unequalled,” Peter Brown, a distinguished scholar of antiquities at Princeton University, said in an interview.