Ca. 2300–2000 b.c. The head likely depicts a Mesopotamian ruler and is one of the earliest known life-size lost-wax metal sculptures to survive. It had been thought that the head was virtually solid, ...

It took decades for archaeologists to realize this 3,500-year-old tablet depicts an ancient city at scale. But how did its creators pull that off? Archaeologists from the University of Pennsylvania ...

Discover how Maria Martinez revolutionized Pueblo pottery with her innovative black-on-black ceramics, inspired by ancient fragments and created through experimental firing techniques at San Ildefonso ...

Rare relics of Ancient Rome were recently found at a fort in northern England — including a 2,000-year-old piece of fruit. In an announcement from the Northumberland National Park, officials said in ...

A new archaeological study has revealed that much of the 4,000-year-old pottery found in Spain’s ancient El Argar settlements was not produced locally but came from specialized workshops in the ...

Evidence of specialized pottery workshops operating 4,000 years ago in southeastern Spain has been uncovered by archaeologists, fundamentally challenging previous assumptions about Bronze Age El Argar ...

The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, said David Drake, the artist, had been “deprived of his creations involuntarily and without compensation.” By Christine Hauser In the 1800s, while enslaved in South ...

This tiny fragment belied a find of Biblical proportions. Archaeologists in Jerusalem have unearthed a 2,700-year-old Assyrian inscription in clay that could shine a light on key events detailed in ...

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

In an archaeological achievement, researchers from Kumamoto University have successfully reconstructed the structure of prehistoric fishing nets from the Jomon period (ca. 14,000–900 BCE) by analyzing ...

Not only have scholars been off about when horses were introduced to ancient Sicily by roughly 1,000 years, they’ve also been wrong about their role on the island. Researchers have confirmed the ...

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