Unveiling the mysteries of early civilization, Mesopotamian clay provides valuable insights into the origins of chemistry.

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

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

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 ...

Researchers found a 4,000-year-old handprint on the bottom of a "soul house," a clay funerary object popular during Egypt's Middle Kingdom period. The Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge Some ...

Archaeologists discovered a small, clay tablet covered in cuneiform in the ancient ruins of Alalah, a major Bronze Age-era ...

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

Several large sculptures were among the trove of artifacts that divers recovered from the waters near Alexandria, Egypt.

(CNN) — Writings on an ancient clay tablet have allowed experts to reconstruct a Bronze Age ship made of reeds and sail it on a maiden voyage off the coast of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. The ...

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