The 1,800-year-old Ketton mosaic discovered at England's Rutland villa features a rare retelling of the Trojan War myth not ...

Section of Panel 1 of the Ketton Mosaic shows Hector, prince of Troy, in his chariot. (©ULAS). A second-century Roman coin from Ilium in Turkey, labelled ‘Hector’, is an earlier example of the same ...

The Phoenicians were a Semitic-speaking people whose maritime trade networks were crucial for the spread of information and culture throughout the Mediterranean. We do not know what the Phoenicians ...

The team behind what has been described as "one of the most significant mosaics discovered in the UK" have revealed that it ...

The Greeks had style! Their red and black pottery was very famous. They were great builders too. The Greeks built grand temples to their gods and superb sculptures of brave heroes. They pretty much ...

Thirteen Johns Hopkins undergraduates divide themselves into four groups and huddle over tables at Baltimore Clayworks, the ceramic arts studio in Mount Washington. Every group is trying to paint ...

A potter works in Nazla village in Fayoum, Egypt, on Oct. 5, 2020. The Nazla village of Egypt's Fayoum governorate has been famous for its potters who keep the ancient Egyptian pottery making ...

A new study suggests that an ivory shoulder in ancient Greek mythology may represent the earliest prosthetic shoulder ...