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

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

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

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

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

Multiple clay puppets with creepy open-mouthed expressions were discovered at the top of a pyramid in El Salvador. The figurines are around 2,400 years old.

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

Local farmers discovered thousands of terracotta warrior statues in Shaanxi, China, in 1974. How much do you know about these ...

Archaeologists have uncovered ancient Greek and Egyptian artifacts in Megiddo, supporting biblical accounts of a historic ...

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 ...