Clay Tablet Reveals Ancient Mesopotamians Had a Rough Understanding of Anatomy, ‘They Felt Anger in Their Feet and Love in the Knees’ Researchers claim that ancient humans possibly described ...

Similarly, ancient traps were also used to capture rodents, and Evans said a clay box found in Kahun may have been a rat trap. Elsewhere in the ancient world, clay boxes dating back 4,000 years have ...

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 ...

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 ...