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 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 ...

Unearthed from the graves of children, ceramic baby bottles from thousands of years ago would look perfectly at home in nurseries today. Some have little feet, and one bottle’s spout juts from a ...

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 ...

If you were dropped into Paestum and not told the location, you’d think you were in Greece. But you are in Salerno, Italy, where the remains of three Greek temples, with beautifully carved columns, ...