Featuring a pottery bowl adorned with an indescribable motif, a set of pottery artifacts debuted at the Chinese ...

The styles of ancient Greek pottery and the strange effigies of the Olympic god Hermes which were used in ways few moderns ...

Sometimes chemistry can help researchers make sense of history. Scientists at the Field Museum in Chicago studied the materials in Peru’s historic pottery from the Wari empire and confirmed that it ...

Archaeologists have uncovered over 18,000 pieces of pottery inscribed with details of life in ancient Egypt – including lines written as punishment by badly behaved students. The 2,000-year-old ...

Preserved and passed down mainly by women, the knowledge of Waurá pottery making is at risk, as changes in rainfall cause ...

Archeologists discovered 18,000 pottery fragments used as writing materials in ancient Egypt. The fragments were used to write shopping lists, receipts, and lines students wrote as a punishment. The ...

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Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered an ancient pottery workshop — with the remains of rounded vessels, coins, figurines and even a 'ritual room' — dating to the beginning of the Roman period in ...

A team of researchers in Xi’an, Shaanxi province, has decoded the casting technique used by Bronze Age artisans 3,000 years ago to create a complex buffalo-shaped vessel. Their work has helped solve ...

Archaeologists discovered ancient docks and artifacts from a submerged 2,000-year-old city believed to be an extension of ...