A scientist, an Egyptologist, and a video-game designer are teaming up to unveil the culinary secrets of ancient Egypt by extracting traces of 4,500-year-old yeast from ancient pottery and using it to ...

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

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 ...

In the course of the excavation process in Can Sadurní cave (Begues), archeologists found the torso, with one complete arm and the initial part of the other, of a human figurine made of pottery. It is ...

Archeologists at Northern Arizona University are hoping a new technology they helped pioneer will change the way scientists study the broken pieces left behind by ancient societies. The team from ...

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 ...

May 22 (UPI) --When researchers in Israel examined fragments of clay jars used to house beer and mead several thousand years ago, they discovered colonies of yeast hiding in the shards' nano-sized ...

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 ...