Unearthed from the graves of children, ceramic baby bottles from thousands of years ago would look perfectly at home in nurseries today. Some have little feet, and one bottle’s spout juts from a ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

A team of scientists has found the first evidence for ancient honey hunting, locked inside pottery fragments from prehistoric West Africa, dating back some 3,500 years ago. A team of scientists, led ...

Unearthed from the graves of children, ceramic baby bottles from thousands of years ago would look perfectly at home in nurseries today. Some have little feet, and one bottle’s spout juts from a ...

Archaeologists recently excavated an ancient workshop in Greece, revealing a trove of unfinished projects and other curiosities. The project was announced by Greece's Ministry of Culture in a Facebook ...

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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 ...