Classifying ancient pottery has always depended on the trained judgment of an archaeologist. Identifying the subtle ...

In an archaeological achievement, researchers from Kumamoto University have successfully reconstructed the structure of prehistoric fishing nets from the Jomon period (ca. 14,000–900 BCE) by analyzing ...

Researchers at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, the U.K., have made the thrilling discovery of a 4,000-year-old handprint on an ancient Egyptian funerary object, in the course of preparing a major ...

A new Israeli research initiative is using cutting-edge scientific methods to solve one of archaeology’s oldest mysteries: where ancient pottery was made. The project, launched by the Israel ...

An 8,000-year-old pottery vessel has revealed that Mesopotamians were using mathematics years before numbers and writing were invented, according to a recent study. Up until now, the first records of ...

For almost three decades, ceramicist, Nabahat Lotia, has been on a restless mission to highlight local pottery’s fast-fading history and craftsmanship...from Lahore to Thatta and beyond. Since she was ...

Discover how Maria Martinez revolutionized Pueblo pottery with her innovative black-on-black ceramics, inspired by ancient fragments and created through experimental firing techniques at San Ildefonso ...

Millennia-old pottery remains from across Europe reveal that ancient communities in the region made elaborate meals using a much greater variety of plant and animal products than previously believed, ...