The magnetic North Pole has shifted over the millennia, leaving clues in the minerals that make up clay antiquities ...

Israeli-led team develops new authentication technique based on magnetic signals acquired by clay over thousands of years The ...

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 ...

Wais Nazari, a vendor of pottery in Istalif who has engaged in the trade since childhood, endeavors both to conserve the traditional craft and to provide for his family. "This craft was passed down to ...

A new study suggests that a period of intense fires and landscape upheaval in the ancient southern Levant may have helped ...

What was the significance of pottery and beads throughout history? For many ancient cultures, these artifacts were deeply embedded in daily life — and provide invaluable insights for researchers today ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ancient wildfires may have inspired pottery by showing early farmers how fire could transform ordinary clay into a hard, durable material.

Pottery in ancient Greece, as elsewhere, was fired in a specially-made ceramic kiln. Other firing structures, including food ovens, smelting furnaces, and lime kilns, would have been unsuitable for ...