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Mariana Makramalla is usually hunched over a table, snipping small pieces of colored stone with pliers in her family’s mosaics workshop in the western Jordan town of Madaba.

Rings set with colored stone flashed on his fingers.

He had noticed with a terrible pang of fear that the drops were falling on a face, depicted in tiny pieces of colored stone.

Colored stone tiles representing different armies and sea monsters shifted around as the forces changed position.

Inside, light filters serenely through marble panels, softly illuminating the colored stone’s veins.