Utility workers in Lima, Peru, uncovered a 1,000-year-old pre-Inca mummy during excavation work for a gas pipeline.

Pottery making is a timeless craft that combines skill, patience, and creativity. The process begins with shaping the clay on a potter's wheel or by hand, followed by drying and firing in a kiln ...

Dawn broke to reveal its source: a long, narrow ridge of jagged ice that had mysteriously arisen across the lake’s surface ... blame the disappearance of the ancient rhythms on global climate ...

Prehistoric housewives, however, smashed crockery as freely as their descendants, and the survival value of a pottery vessel in use is limited. Pottery, then, is particularly useful for ...

Move over kale — there’s a new powerhouse plant in town. It’s been dubbed “the new spirulina” — after another blue-green algae that’s been hailed as a superfood by the wellness ...

Surface texture of a fossilized shell. Shallow depth of field macro. Exploring the ancient world. Archaeological excavations. Close-up of ancient mollusk fossils discovered by archaeologists.

In addition to the newly discovered tomb, archaeologists uncovered the remains of a pottery and glass workshop at Banawit, a village located north of Abydos. The workshop dates to a time when the ...

This is a reconstruction of the prehistoric mammal Spinolestes in the Cretaceous-period Las Hoyas wetland. This image is not associated with the current study but demonstrates a dark-furred mammal ...

The overall goal of this course is to introduce and familiarize students with the material processing of pottery from different parts of the ancient world, from the prehistoric period to the ...

In the land of Moenjodaro and Harappa, where ancient craftsmanship still whispers secrets, the pottery tradition remains alive but struggling. This traditional art form on the brink of extinction.