Charlotte Sullivan, an art historian, learned to make marble mosaics at the Studio Cassio in Rome and taught the art to a group of her neighbors in Dahshur.

Fatma and Rehab Abul Ghait, daughters of a watchman at the Bent Pyramid, have become accomplished mosaicists.

Abandoning precarious work as a day-laborer, Abu Basil Mitwalli has taken up mosaic-making with skill and passion.

Abu Basil often works in tandem with his son Basil Mitwalli.

Ahmed Abul Ghait, a gifted mosaicist, shows one of the panels in his Heron Triptych.

Ashraf Abul Ghait, Ahmed’s brother, is the manager of Dahshur Mosaics.