Archaeologists have discovered the remains of three Maya cities in the Petén jungle of Guatemala. The cities are about 3 ...

The Salado were clever farmers who built water channels directing flow from the Salt River to their fields. They grew maize, ...

Yet, taken together, pottery and beads hold a special place in human history. Researchers have long studied ancient pottery and beads to unearth buried secrets about our collective past. These items, ...

Until the current study, cave pearls were neither found in an archaeological context nor used for archaeological research,” ...

Some empires, like the ancient Romans, took a "top-down" approach to spreading their aesthetic, shipping pottery across the Mediterranean so that people throughout the empire were using the ...

It’s no wonder ancient Zapotec folktales call barro negro “pottery of the night.” San Bartolo Coyotepec’s black pottery (barro negro) gets its instantly recognizable inky hue from being ...

Archaeologists recently uncovered rare artifacts from an ancient African Christian community in Israel, revealing a glimpse ...

AMMAN — Pottery reading and collecting is essential in understanding history of Southern Levant. The analysis of ancient pottery begins with an understanding of the basic vessel part as most excavated ...

coins and pottery. The artifacts could provide further insight into the “secrets of the ancient Egyptian civilization,” including the burial practices of the time, as well as the coastal city ...

Archaeologists believe they have uncovered evidence of an ancient biblical battle, all thanks to a few broken fragments found in a curious location. The artifacts, which mostly consist of Egyptian ...