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.

New research analyzing ancient pottery from the Xueshan archaeological site in Beijing offers fresh insights into how the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Archaeologist found troves of ancient treasures at four different sites in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, according to officials. Jeddah Historic District Program More than 100 years ago, collections of ...

A new study suggests flower patterns painted on 8,000-year-old pottery reveal early ideas of balance, symmetry and numerical ...

With a month to go before the Lunar New Year, kilns in Thanh Ha pottery village (Hoi An Tay Ward, Da Nang City) are already ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Israelis families display pieces of pottery found while volunteering at an excavation at Tel Maresha at the Beit Guvrin-Maresha ...