Archaeologists working on a Japanese island discovered an ancient shard of earthenware pottery featuring Kanji, the logographic characters that comprise the Japanese system of writing. It's one of the ...

This discovery, researchers noted, contributes to “ethnomathematics,” a field that explores mathematics through culture.

What if your local history museum owns several very rare clay pottery bowls, and a museum supporter gave you dozens of the same pottery shards discovered over the years on her property? Think what ...

Pottery shards, coins, and bones can survive for millennia beneath the soil, but the scents of antiquity typically escape archaeological recovery. Now, for the first time, an interdisciplinary team of ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Talk about vintage wine: Pieces of broken pottery found in the nation of Georgia provide the earliest known evidence for the origins of today's winemaking industry. The eight shards, ...

Ever go to a college football game with nearly 80,000 crazy fans ready to tear the stands apart? Just imagine going to an event where players routinely died before your eyes, in a culture with a ...

At Ute Mountain Tribal Park in Southwest Colorado, visitors show up promptly at 9 a.m., then join a tour with Ute guides who’ve led visitors through the home of ancestral pueblo Indians who lived ...

NEW YORK (AP) – Talk about vintage wine: Pieces of broken pottery found in the nation of Georgia provide the earliest known evidence for the origins of today’s winemaking industry. The eight shards, ...

The man’s lawyer said he plans to immediately appeal the decision, which left his family feeling “hopeless” and “broken.” The family of retired British geologist Jim Fitton (third from left) has ...

Iraq’s felony court has delivered a crushing sentence in the case of Jim Fitton, a retired British geologist who was detained and arrested in March for attempting to smuggle ancient pottery shards out ...

Henry Brean Jun 1, 2020 Jun 1, 2020 Updated May 18, 2021 If one man’s trash is another man’s treasure, some local researchers have unearthed a gold mine in downtown Tucson. Artifacts sifted from ...

At the next holiday dinner, when the discussion turns to politics and you reach for a second glass of merlot, consider this: Your social lubricant has 8,000-year-old roots. People were fermenting ...