Flower designs on 8,000-year-old Mesopotamian pots reveal a “mathematical knowledge” perhaps developed to share land and ...

The project, launched by the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA), aims to trace the origin of thousands of ceramic vessels ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Researchers are using chemical and mineral analysis to trace the origins of ancient pottery in Israel, building a national ...

Researchers have unearthed compelling evidence of one of humanity's oldest alcoholic beverages: rice beer. 10,000-year-old evidence was uncovered at the Shangshan site in Zhejiang Province, China. The ...

Archaeologists in Corsica uncovered the ruins of an ancient Roman tile making workshop with a kiln, wash basin and warehouse, photos show. Photo from Nathalie Gonzalez and Inrap Buried in the acidic ...

Researchers with Dartmouth College have detailed the discovery of beer residue in 9,000-year-old pottery, shedding light on both the habits and recipes used by people in ancient China. The findings ...

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Archaeologists have long reconstructed past civilizations from broken pots, discarded tools and buried middens of everyday waste. If someone thousands of years from now digs through the layers we are ...