The magnetic North Pole has shifted over the millennia, leaving clues in the minerals that make up clay antiquities ...

Israeli-led team develops new authentication technique based on magnetic signals acquired by clay over thousands of years The ...

Learn about a new magnetic testing method that can help authenticate ancient clay relics and fight against black market ...

A new study suggests that a period of intense fires and landscape upheaval in the ancient southern Levant may have helped ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A machine learns to categorize pottery comparable to expert archaeologists, matches designs among thousands of broken pieces. Archaeologists at Northern Arizona University are hoping a new technology ...