A study of ancient pottery decoration shows deep, long-lasting ties between early farming communities in Greece and Anatolia.

Ceramics are one of the most important sources of information for archaeologists. Yet how these objects are produced, especially in the firing stage, has received little attention to date. The ...

Rajka Pottery bridges ancient South Indian hand-coiling with global modern design. It proves that craft can be both a living ...

New research conducted at Walufeni Cave, an important archaeological site in Papua New Guinea, reveals new evidence of long-distance interactions between Oceania's Indigenous societies, as far back as ...

Plantlike designs on pottery made almost 8,000 years ago may be the earliest evidence yet of mathematical thinking. Many of the flower decorations painted on pottery by an ancient culture in northern ...

An Egyptian-German archaeological team has uncovered approximately 13,000 inscribed pottery fragments at the ancient site of Athribis, offering a rare window into more than 1,000 years of daily life ...

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Researchers in Egypt have discovered a massive trove of what amount to ancient notepads. The 43,000 ostraca—sherds of broken pottery onto which Egyptians scrawled short messages—were excavated from ...

A dark piece of pottery, shaped somewhat like an urn with a tapered, rounded bottom. Light-colored material is flaking off the brown pottery base. Analysis of 85 pieces of Mesolithic pottery, like the ...

Historic finds have been discovered by archaeologists ahead of the Exceat Bridge replacement, the county council said Ancient fragments of pottery have been discovered as work to build a new bridge at ...