The hand-coiling technique is one of the oldest methods of pottery making in Africa. It involves rolling clay into long ...

Researchers uncover 4,000-year-old pottery in Spain showing El Argar’s centralized, regionally connected production system.

The research team from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona analyzed pottery from key El Argar administrative centers including Tira del Lienzo and Ifre in Murcia province. According to the study ...

Fifth-generation pottery maker Andreas Makaris is one of the most sought after artists for ceramics on Santorini Island in ...

Archaeologists have uncovered over 18,000 pieces of pottery inscribed with details of life in ancient Egypt – including lines written as punishment by badly behaved students. The 2,000-year-old ...

Traces of proteins from horse blood were found on ancient pottery, suggesting the animals were present on the island much earlier than previously believed and were consumed as part of ritual practices ...

In a study by Dr. Yinzhi Cui and his colleagues published in the Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, the contents of ...

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 ...

Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered an ancient pottery workshop — with the remains of rounded vessels, coins, figurines and even a 'ritual room' — dating to the beginning of the Roman period in ...

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Not only have scholars been off about when horses were introduced to ancient Sicily by roughly 1,000 years, they’ve also been wrong about their role on the island. Researchers have confirmed the ...