Plantlike designs on pottery made almost 8,000 years ago may be the earliest evidence yet of mathematical thinking. Many of the flower decorations painted on pottery by an ancient culture in northern ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Israelis families display pieces of pottery found while volunteering at an excavation at Tel Maresha at the Beit Guvrin-Maresha ...

Some of the earliest artistic expressions of botanical motifs could indicate that humans developed mathematical and geometric thinking thousands of years before they could write out their calculations ...

Repeated flower designs on ancient pottery hint that early village life relied on counting and shared ideas way before math ...

New research analyzing ancient pottery from the Xueshan archaeological site in Beijing offers fresh insights into how the ...

Researchers from Cambridge University's Fitzwilliam Museum in the UK made an astonishing discovery. They have uncovered a 4,000-year-old handprint beneath an ancient Egyptian "soul house" during ...

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 ...

Archaeologist found troves of ancient treasures at four different sites in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, according to officials. Jeddah Historic District Program More than 100 years ago, collections of ...

X-ray computed tomography (CT) was used to examine and digitally reconstruct net impressions preserved in pottery from the Hidaka region of Hokkaido, Japan, dating to the Early Jomon period (referred ...

A new Israeli research initiative is using cutting-edge scientific methods to solve one of archaeology’s oldest mysteries: where ancient pottery was made. The project, launched by the Israel ...