Ceramics are one of the most important sources of information for archaeologists. Yet how these objects are produced, ...

A remarkably intact pottery vessel dating back more than 10,000 years has been recovered from the depths of Lake Biwa, Japan, marking one of the oldest and most significant ceramic discoveries in ...

What was the significance of pottery and beads throughout history? For many ancient cultures, these artifacts were deeply embedded in daily life — and provide invaluable insights for researchers today ...

Analysis by Hebrew University researchers shows 8,000-year-old Halafian pottery sherds bearing symmetry and numerical ...

Scraps of pottery often litter archaeological sites. Akin to today’s ubiquitous plastic, earthenware is “the nonbiodegradable polymer of the ancient world,” says biogeochemist Richard Evershed, ...

As the inane car insurance commercials suggest, ancient humans were smarter than we give them credit for. They created some of the same words we still use today. They even brewed beer. Now evidence ...

The images of people, gods, animals and everyday objects found on ancient Greek pottery are the single most important source for classical archeologists such as John Oakley. For these scenes of myths ...

A hive of honeybees on display at the annual Vermont Farm Show in Essex Junction, Vt. (AP Photo/Andy Duback, File) (CN) — A fresh look into ancient pottery fragments has revealed the earliest known ...

Peru's first great empire, the Wari, stretched for more than a thousand miles over the Andes Mountains and along the coast from 600-1000 CE. The pottery they left behind gives archaeologists clues as ...

Centuries-old shards of pottery mingle with spent ammunition rounds on a wind-swept mountainside in northern Afghanistan where French archaeologists believe they have found a vast ancient city. For ...

One of the powers of art is its ability to materialize something that does not exist in reality, making it feel as though it ...