Step into the fascinating world of traditional pottery as we explore the ancient and ingenious process of making clay water coolers in a factory. These handcrafted coolers keep water refreshingly cool ...

The alphabetic writing system was identified on finger-length clay cylinders excavated from a tomb in an ancient Syrian city ... for example—these did not make use of an alphabet.

DATE: ca. 2400 B.C. LANGUAGE: Sumerian. In early 2016, hundreds of media outlets around the world reported that a set of recently deciphered ancient clay tablets revealed that Babylonian ...

Researchers made the new discoveries during field work at the Bronze Age site of Kurd Qaburstan. The research provides insights into regional heritage and fills gaps in knowledge about how ancient ...

Clay objects roughly the size of fingers were discovered during a dig at the ancient city of Umm el-Marra ... by contributing institutions or for the use of any information through the EurekAlert ...

Clay is a versatile material that can be made into many types of objects. It is most often associated with pottery, which has many years of history worldwide. Less well-known are the musical ...

What it tells us about the past: This small, clay tablet was likely a tool used to perform rituals at two prehistoric stone rings in northern Japan over three millennia ago. The holes were used ...

An ancient game board, building remains and three clay tablets recently discovered by archaeologists in northeastern Iraq provide new details about Mesopotamian life. The clay tablets are the ...

Researchers have extracted ancient plant DNA from a 2,900-year-old clay brick. Experts at the University of Oxford collected samples from the artefact's inner core, which uncovered a "time capsule ...

Eighty ancient clay figures have been discovered by archaeologists at The Universities of Manchester and Ghana, showing that a sophisticated society - now forgotten - once existed in West Africa. They ...

New discoveries by a UCF researcher and her team at the ancient Mesopotamian site of Kurd Qaburstan, including clay tablets with ancient cuneiform writing, a game board and large structural ...

University of Central Florida, courtesy of Tiffany Earley-Spadoni An ancient game board, building remains and three clay tablets recently discovered by archaeologists in northeastern Iraq provide ...