‘It’s exactly like a puzzle’: experts on piecing together Roman fresco find

House in southern France yielded find of outstanding wall paintings dating from 1st century BC

On the right bank of the Rhone in the Provencal town of Arles, the Roman-built House of the Harpist is being hailed as a remarkable record of ancient architecture and interior decoration.

Now, experts have opened their workshop to reveal their painstaking attempts to piece together the vast jigsaw of magnificent and never before seen frescoes discovered in the property thought to date back more than two millennia.