with the support of bma trustee robert garrett, the baltimore museum of art joined the musées nationaux de france, worcester art museum, and princeton university during the excavations of 1932 to 1939, discovering 300 mosaic pavements in and around the lost city. the bma received some of the mosaics from the excavation, totaling 34 pavements, 28 of which are on display in the museum's sunlit atrium court.