An ancient Greek mosaic depicting two nude men with tails has been unearthed in Greece. Photo

Construction workers in Greece have found a striking 2,400-year-old pebble mosaic. It depicts two naked men with tails dancing to music.

The floor on which the found mosaic is laid out was once part of a building in Eretria, a town on the island of Euboea where there was an ancient Greek settlement. Researchers dated the house to the late Classical period or mid-fourth century B.C. because the find is similar to a mosaic floor that was dug up in a neighboring building known as the House of Mosaics, Live Science wrote.

The mosaic is 1.13 meters wide and was made of pebbles of different colors arranged in a pattern to depict two male satyrs with tails, horns and pointed ears. The younger of the two plays a double flute while the older bearded man dances to the music.

According to the Greek Ministry of Culture, the mosaic is in an excellent state of preservation.

In Greek mythology, satyrs were "wild creatures" who were "closely associated with Dionysus," the Greek god of fertility, as well as wine, pleasure and "ritual madness."

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