The pleasure of chocolate carried across the continent may have fueled the builders of earthen monuments in Georgia a ...

Genetic analysis of ancient pottery fragments unearthed near Georgia's Etowah Indian Mounds has uncovered the oldest known ...

A new magnetic test can distinguish ancient pottery from modern fakes by detecting a hidden signal that builds up in clay over centuries.

Chocolate has been providing a sugar high to humans for centuries, enough to inspire them to build monuments too. A new ...

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 ...

Learn about a new magnetic testing method that can help authenticate ancient clay relics and fight against black market antiquities. Imagine walking into an antiquities dealership and seeing a ...

Archaeologists in northern France uncover a Roman pottery complex at Sermaize, revealing how craftspeople prepared clay and ...

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 ...

Workers renovating a bustling city boulevard stumbled across a piece of the ancient past — a cache of pottery dating back ...

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 ...

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 ...

As the inane car insurance commercials suggest, ancient humans were smarter than we give them credit for. They created some of the same words we still use today. They even brewed beer. Now evidence ...