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

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 ...

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 ...

Repeated flower designs on ancient pottery hint that early village life relied on counting and shared ideas way before math ...

The project, launched by the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA), aims to trace the origin of thousands of ceramic vessels even when the kilns where they were fired have long vanished.

Symmetrical arrangements of botanical motifs indicate a grasp of spatial division long before the advent of formal written ...

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 ...

X-ray computed tomography (CT) was used to examine and digitally reconstruct net impressions preserved in pottery from the Hidaka region of Hokkaido, Japan, dating to the Early Jomon period (referred ...

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 ...

This tiny fragment belied a find of Biblical proportions. Archaeologists in Jerusalem have unearthed a 2,700-year-old Assyrian inscription in clay that could shine a light on key events detailed 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 ...