A UMass Amherst student accidentally discovered a liquid that defied laws and repeatedly formed the shape of ancient Greek ...

The ancient Greek roots of the cross symbol, its significance in cosmology, religion, and philosophy, long before ...

Most people visit South Africa’s Kruger National Park for wildlife safaris. I go to its northern Parfuri region to study an archaeological site called Thulamela, a precolonial kingdom between ...

The layer with Egyptian and Greek pottery fragments described in the latest study is among several layers that date from after 732 B.C., when records indicate Megiddo was conquered by the Neo ...

Ancient Greece gave us many things, from mythology to democracy by way of the Olympics, but if I recall my (very) old primary-school project correctly, one thing Archimedes and pals never got ...

Prior work suggested that during the mid-Middle Paleolithic (80,000 to 130,000 years ago), the southern Levant was home to at least three different groups of Homo: modern humans, Neanderthals and ...

Researchers investigated with neurophysiological techniques that tracked changes in modern participants as they learned ancient pottery skills. Pottery isn’t easy, and the more participants practiced, ...

The overall goal of this course is to introduce and familiarize students with the material processing of pottery from different parts of the ancient world, from the prehistoric period to the ...