Their legacy, imprinted in clay, now resurfaces from the depths, offering new insights into the spiritual and domestic lives ...

Researchers unearthed several clay puppets from El Salvador which they hope will give them more insights into the fairly ...

The artifacts were excavated from a city dating back to the third millennium B.C.E. by researchers from Iraq and the British ...

The legendary pharaoh’s tomb was discovered in 1922, filled with thousands of priceless artifacts — some of which experts now believe were previously overlooked.

Przedwojewska-Szymańska / PASI “They are clay actors,” Szymański tells Science’s Lizzie ... Przedwojewska-Szymańska / PASI ...

Archaeologists in El Salvador found a collection of clay puppets from the pre-Columbian El Salvador that they dated to around ...

The discovery of artifacts near the sarcophagus of Tutankhamun may be the oldest known evidence of a ritual known as the ...

Archaeologists excavating the San Isidro site in El Salvador have uncovered five ancient clay figurines believed to be 2,400 years old, marking a rare and significant discovery in Mesoamerican ...

First, an artifact is embedded in a block of clay. Myra Westfall demonstrates by tracing the shape of the point in the clay with a tool, then digging out clay within the outline and setting the ...

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 ...

In the volcanic depths of Lake Bolsena in central Italy, archaeologists found a 3,000-year-old clay figurine ... have been adorned with textiles. Most artifacts of this kind are typically ...

Allowing suit but not collection makes no sense.” At stake are the thousands of 2,500-year-old clay artifacts known as the Persepolis tablets. Excavated in the 1930s, the tablets describe the ...