Earliest Evidence of 'Barley' Beer Found From 2500-Yr-Old Clay Cups, 'Ground Breaking' Technique Used Throughout history, ...

Clay Tablet Reveals Ancient Mesopotamians Had ... to figure out how humans connected emotions with body parts in ancient times, makes way for biases and limits the observations that experts ...

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Clay objects roughly the size of fingers were discovered during a dig at the ancient city of Umm el-Marra. The engraved symbols may be part of the earliest known alphabet. Disclaimer: AAAS and ...

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 ...

This piece of clay contains some of the earliest writing ... of writing comes from Mesopotamia and dates to about 3300 BC. In time different-looking writing appeared in the river valleys of ...

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 ...

An ancient clay tablet found in central Turkey suggests ... who likely possessed the most advanced skills for glassmaking at the time, JIAA officials said. A 146-millimeter-long fragment of ...

Study of Martian mounds reveals evidence of water on ancient Mars In McNeil's recent ... way water interacts with rock over a lot of time so that clay forms. Curiously, the underlying and ...