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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

In the course of the excavation process in Can Sadurní cave (Begues), archeologists found the torso, with one complete arm and the initial part of the other, of a human figurine made of pottery. It is ...

A machine learns to categorize pottery comparable to expert archaeologists, matches designs among thousands of broken pieces. Archaeologists at Northern Arizona University are hoping a new technology ...

As if we didn't have enough to worry about, one doomsday scenario making the rounds is that the Earth's magnetic field will one day reverse and cause mass extinctions of the sort not seen since the ...

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 ...