The 1-inch pottery fragment, which is part of a seal that was used to authenticate official documents, was reportedly found ...

Scholars were wrong about prehistoric Sicily. Davide Tanasi, a professor at the University of South Florida, has new evidence that not only were horses present on the Mediterranean island earlier than ...

It is clear that the sprawling city of Teotihuacan near Mexico City was a major metropolis of the ancient world, but what do ...

The event aims to honor the local pottery craft and also serves as a tribute to artisans who have for hundreds of years ...

Not only have scholars been off about when horses were introduced to ancient Sicily by roughly 1,000 years, they’ve also been wrong about their role on the island. Researchers have confirmed the ...

Peru's first great empire, the Wari, stretched for more than a thousand miles over the Andes Mountains and along the coast from 600-1000 CE. The pottery they left behind gives archaeologists clues as ...

Sometimes chemistry can help researchers make sense of history. Scientists at the Field Museum in Chicago studied the materials in Peru’s historic pottery from the Wari empire and confirmed that it ...

The remains of 3,500-year-old rice were recently found in Guam — making it the earliest known evidence of rice in Remote Oceania. Archaeologists discovered the rice at the Ritidian Site Complex, ...

Featuring a pottery bowl adorned with an indescribable motif, a set of pottery artifacts debuted at the Chinese Archaeological Museum in Beijing on Wednesday. These relics look surprisingly modern, ...

When you think of ancient Egypt, you might imagine towering pyramids, majestic temples, and the noseless Great Sphinx of Giza ...

Traces of proteins from horse blood were found on ancient pottery, suggesting the animals were present on the island much earlier than previously believed and were consumed as part of ritual practices ...