Where was the Alexander the Great mosaic discovered in Pompeii?

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Ruins of ancient Pompeii with stone columns and walls in the foreground, and Mount Vesuvius rising in the background under a partly cloudy sky. — Pompeii Mount Vesuvius rising up over the ruins of the ancient Roman city Pompeii.

The famous Alexander the Great mosaic was discovered in the House of the Faun in Pompeii.1

This magnificent work, which depicts the Battle of Issus between Alexander and the Persian king Darius III, is a prominent example of opus vermiculatum, a technique using tiny stone or glass cubes to achieve fine pictorial detail. It is widely considered to be a copy of a lost 4th-century BCE Hellenistic painting.21