Using a technique called thin-section petrography, investigators can learn where, when, and how stone and clay artifacts were made. The method is also used in conservation research, and to ...

A 3,000-year-old clay figurine depicting an ancient goddess ... For several millennia, the artifact has been submerged ...

Indus potters made plain everyday pots, and fine decorated pots like this one. The top half of the pot is decorated with painted birds. The Indus people wrote on soft clay using pointed sticks or ...

Iraq's foreign minister said the Gilgamesh Dream Tablet was one of 17,926 artefacts recovered in the ... for the first time in three decades. The clay artefact bears part of the Epic of Gilgamesh ...

Ramesh noted that such artefacts are prevalent ... sharp objects while the clay was still wet,” added the researcher. Emmanuel elaborated on the discoveries made at Pidagam such as udukkai ...

Kate Cadman said she was delighted to discover thousands of clay pipes neatly arranged for firing inside donated pots A Shropshire pipeworks museum has opened for the season with new artefacts on ...