Excavations on unpromising mounds in the Iraqi desert revealed Sumer’s earliest city. Surviving relics and a rebuilt temple have given experts more clues about the ancient metropolis of Eridu.

Archaeologists uncovered 11,000-year-old pottery in Mongolia, pushing back the timeline of human innovation by nearly 2,000 ...

Archaeologists in Mexico have discovered ancient Mayan pottery in a cave system a little more than 10 miles away from downtown Playa de Carmen.

TEHRAN - Dehloran, as one of the significant regions in western Iran, has been settled in prehistoric times and contains ...

Credit: Arbyreed / CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 A UMass Amherst graduate student may have accidentally created a mysterious liquid that defies scientific laws – and seems strangely devoted to the shape of ancient ...

These findings indicate that contact between ancient communities on both sides ... Arabian Gulf region consisted of trade items such as pottery, beads and metal objects that included knives ...

Writing and trade are deeply intertwined, and some of the oldest surviving cuneiform writing was used in ancient Mesopotamia to keep records of the buying and selling of goods. In ancient ...

Visitors to the site of Pompeii, the ancient Roman town buried (and so preserved for thousands of years) by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79AD, don't often think to look beyond the city walls.

Eratosthenes became the first person to calculate the Earth’s circumference with remarkable accuracy, a feat that stands as a testament to the ingenuity of ancient science. Using the differences in ...

In February, a man from southern Alberta flew to Central America to return an ancient artifact his family had been gifted decades before. Don McDougall from Okotoks, Alta., says a jade amulet from ...

The team found layers dating from the Iron Age under the basilica, including pottery, oil lamps and soil samples. The presence of pre-Christian artefacts suggests the land changed over time from a ...

Reviving an ancient tradition, pottery artisans meticulously recreate timeless techniques that have been passed down through generations. From shaping clay by hand to mastering the intricate ...