So this is a floor mosaic from about 75 B.C. It was found in the triclinium of a Roman villa in Via Ardeatina. It looks like this cat has just caught a quail. Who's next?

We think that collage poetry may be traced back to China as early as 200 B.C. It really took off in the 10th century when Japanese poets and calligraphers began pairing artworks and written words using applications of glued paper. They would often cut out different shapes from paper like stars or birds and add them to the overall composition. Sometimes torn edges of paper would be added to look like a landscape. Pictured above is 12th century Japanese calligraphy

This prayer niche, or mihrab, was originally set into the qibla wall of a theological school in Isfahan, Iran. That school, built in A.D. 1354-55, is now known as the Madrasa Imami. The mihrab was made by joining different glazed tiles to create all those intrique designs. This is considered one of the earliest and finest examples of mosaic tilework.