From 17 to 20 April 2026, the UNESCO Youth Cultural Heritage Ambassador Study Tour took place in Lintao County, Dingxi City, Gansu Province. Over 60 young participants — including high school students ...

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 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 ...

Archaeologists in Corsica uncovered the ruins of an ancient Roman tile making workshop with a kiln, wash basin and warehouse, photos show. Photo from Nathalie Gonzalez and Inrap Buried in the acidic ...

In an archaeological achievement, researchers from Kumamoto University have successfully reconstructed the structure of prehistoric fishing nets from the Jomon period (ca. 14,000–900 BCE) by analyzing ...

For almost three decades, ceramicist, Nabahat Lotia, has been on a restless mission to highlight local pottery’s fast-fading history and craftsmanship...from Lahore to Thatta and beyond. Since she was ...

Classifying ancient pottery has always depended on the trained judgment of an archaeologist. Identifying the subtle differences between piece types takes years of experience, and two experts will not ...

Millennia-old pottery remains from across Europe reveal that ancient communities in the region made elaborate meals using a much greater variety of plant and animal products than previously believed, ...

A dark piece of pottery, shaped somewhat like an urn with a tapered, rounded bottom. Light-colored material is flaking off the brown pottery base. Analysis of 85 pieces of Mesolithic pottery, like the ...

An Egyptian-German archaeological team has uncovered approximately 13,000 inscribed pottery fragments at the ancient site of Athribis, offering a rare window into more than 1,000 years of daily life ...

The presence of the Maya in Belize dates back three millennia, with time-honoured traditions such as pottery and embroidery rooted in rural communities such as San Antonio. Today, Timotea Mesh is ...

The first unambiguous records of written numbers emerged in what is now Iraq around 3400 bc. But an analysis of ancient pottery indicates that people in the same region were engaging in structured ...