Pottery appeared in the region during roughly the same broad period in which fires, erosion and clay deposition reached their ...

Learn about a new magnetic testing method that can help authenticate ancient clay relics and fight against black market antiquities. Imagine walking into an antiquities dealership and seeing a ...

Researchers and museums struggling to identify forged antiquities may soon be able to rely on a new ally: the earth’s magnetic field. A team led by Israeli researcher Yoav Vaknin has developed a ...

Peru's first great empire, the Wari, stretched for more than a thousand miles over the Andes Mountains and along the coast from 600 to 1000 CE. The pottery they left behind gives archaeologists clues ...

Researchers from Ca' Foscari University of Venice have uncovered insights into ancient pottery forming techniques using X-ray micro-computed tomography (microCT). The study, published in the Journal ...

Researchers at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, the U.K., have made the thrilling discovery of a 4,000-year-old handprint on an ancient Egyptian funerary object, in the course of preparing a major ...

A small village in Serbia has been making pottery the same way for over 400 years. Now it's been recognized as part of the world's "intangible heritage." The Savic family is one of 18 pottery-making ...

Ceramics is a timeless art with its roots stretching back thousands of years. It derives its name from the Greek word “keramos,” and its origins date to ancient times. Clay, being an abundant natural ...

Genetic analysis of ancient pottery fragments unearthed near Georgia's Etowah Indian Mounds has uncovered the oldest known evidence of chocolate east of the Mississippi River. The findings, published ...