A cultural artifact may be tangible, like an ancient tomb or it may be intangible ... For example, the development of pottery and metallurgy reflects advancements in technology. Second, artifacts can ...

A cultural artifact may be tangible, like an ancient tomb or it may be intangible ... For example, the development of pottery and metallurgy reflects advancements in technology. Second, artifacts can ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. The closed LTV Steel taconite plant sits idle near Hoyt Lakes, Minn., Feb. 10, 2016. (AP Photo/Jim Mone ...

What makes it truly extraordinary is its seamless integration of diverse crafts, such as the robustness of bronze casting, the glazed brilliance of ceramic firing, the artistic touches of painting and ...

Fonio – a gluten-free grain with many nutritional benefits – has been cultivated as a subsistence crop in West Africa for thousands of years.

From 2004 on, excavations by the Kerala State Archaeology Department along the coast of central Kerala, in small towns like Pattanam, Paravoor, and Kodungallur—collectively known as the Muziris ...

His work blended techniques from archaeology, physics, geochemistry, and materials science to reconstruct ancient technologies in general, and those of ancient metallurgy in particular. Much of his ...

Ancient ruins at Himera. Credit: wikimedia commons / Bjs CC BY 4.0 Aftermath and significance of this war with Carthage Though Agathocles failed to capture Carthage, his invasion in Africa had ...

For over 20 years, archaeologists in India's southern state of Tamil Nadu have been unearthing clues to the region's ancient past ... evolution of Iron Age metallurgy, required sophisticated ...

Hyaenodonts were the main meat-eating mammal at the time across what is now Africa and Arabia ... So the team took inspiration from Bastet, the ancient leonine Egyptian goddess of pleasure ...

It is one of the oldest known towers and provides clear evidence of copper working, underscoring Oman’s historical role in ancient metallurgy. Beyond academia, the book aims to engage a broader ...

Credit: Michał Bugaj / CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 Scientists in Poland have uncovered ancient Iron Age ornaments and jewelry crafted from meteorite ... This discovery not only reshapes scientists’ understanding ...