A 3,000-year-old limestone anchor bearing a Cypro-Minoan inscription was discovered at Tel Dor, Israel, offering evidence of trade links.

A Palestinian farmer recently stumbled upon a 1,500-year-old mosaic dating to the Byzantine era beneath his olive orchard in ...

Researchers from Ca' Foscari University of Venice have uncovered insights into ancient pottery forming techniques using X-ray micro-computed tomography (microCT). The study, published in the ...

Fragments of 3,500-year-old pottery have revealed that one of the world's earliest known uses of opium was likely for ancient burial rituals. Archaeologists discovered residue of the ...

Ancient Akrotiri is ranked #5 out of 13 things to do ... This former Minoan outpost, ... travelers can look at multilevel buildings, loads of pottery and even drainage systems. What is absent ...

SIR ARTHUR EVANS, commenting on the results of Sir Leonard Woolley's recent archaeological investigations in Syria (see NATURE of July 4, p. 20 and August 8, p. 235), pronounces the Minoan impact ...

Based on the style of pottery fragments discovered during the excavation, archaeologists have tentatively dated the building to 2000 to 1700 B.C., in the middle of the Minoan civilization.

A piece of the ancient pottery finally identified at Hawick Museum A request from the Department of Ancient Egypt at the British Museum has resulted in a 4,000-year-old discovery at Hawick Museum. A ...

The oldest pottery containers to date are close to 20,000 years old and come from eastern parts of Asia. They have been found with the remnants of multiple food including fish, boar, and tortoise ...

The ancient Romans also produced their pottery in Rome and shipped it across the empire from there. In a large civilisation like the Wari empire, it could be similar, ...