Archaeologists found an ancient mosaic meme in Turkey in 2012.

Turkish archaeologists had unearthed a 2,400-year-old ancient mosaic meme during the construction of a cable car in Antakya in 2012.

Turkish archaeologists had unearthed a 2,400-year-old ancient mosaic meme during the construction of a cable car in Antakya in 2012.According to Turkey's Anadolu news agency, the mosaic consists of a laid-back skeleton that reclined with a cup next to a bottle of wine and loaf of bread and it is surrounded by the words 'be cheerful, enjoy your life'. It added that Demet Kara, an archaeologist from the Hatay Archaeology Museum states that the mosaic was called as skeleton mosaic and that belonged to the dining room of a house from the 3rd century B.C. There are three scenes on glass mosaics made of black tiles in which two things were very important in the elite class in the Roman period in terms of social activities, the first in the bath and the second is dinner. Kara added that the mosaic is an artefact from the ancient Greek-Roman city of Antioch whereas that the mosaic was a unique finding for the country.

CNN and The Independent reported the excavation of the ancient meme from the Hatay province on the Turkish-Syrian border in 2012.

It also mentioned that the meme was first discovered in 2012 after the starting of work in Antakya to build a cable car and excavations had been launched in the area to find more remains.