Burned crusts on ancient pottery reveal that Stone Age people cooked fish together with berries, seeds, and other plants.

Millennia-old pottery remains from across Europe reveal that ancient communities in the region made elaborate meals using a ...

A small village in Serbia has been making pottery the same way for over 400 years. Now it's been recognized as part of the world's "intangible heritage." The Savic family is one of 18 pottery-making ...

The discovery of clay tablets in Iraqi Kurdistan has helped archaeologists unlock the mystery of an ancient lost city. The 92 clay tablets were unearthed last summer by archaeologists from Germany’s ...

Milk traces in pottery and teeth show goat and sheep dairy was used in Iran 9,000 years ago, among the earliest evidence of ...

The discovery of clay tablets in Iraqi Kurdistan has helped archaeologists unlock the mystery of an ancient lost city. The 92 clay tablets were unearthed last summer by archaeologists from Germany’s ...

Roughly 8,200 years ago, Earth experienced a cataclysmic period of climate change. Freshwater released by melted glaciers flowed freely across North America, spilling into the salty oceans of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ancient people pressed olive oil as far back as 8,000 years ago in Israel, a new study finds. Researchers found residues of the Mediterranean-diet staple on ancient clay pots dating back to the 6th ...

This tiny fragment belied a find of Biblical proportions. Archaeologists in Jerusalem have unearthed a 2,700-year-old Assyrian inscription in clay that could shine a light on key events detailed in ...