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proof that broken things, arranged right, outlast the empires that made them.

materialsmade from tesserae, tiny cut stone or glass cubes
durabilityRoman floor mosaics survive intact after 2000 years
gold trickByzantines sealed gold leaf inside glass for shimmer
geneticsa mosaic person carries two distinct cell genomes
satellitesimage mosaics stitch the entire Earth into one map
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