Narrator: These clay pots have been fired to about 1,200 degrees Celsius. And Eric Louis has about 30 seconds to precisely place this horsehair to create the background design for ceramics that'll ...

Industrial pottery manufacture was developed in Jordan, southern Levant, Asia Minor, Tunisia and Sardinia. There are different preconditions for a pottery production on an industrial scale-enough clay ...

was made last autumn at Tello in southern Iraq—the modern Arabic name for the ancient Sumerian city of Girsu—and includes more than 200 clay cuneiform tablets and 60 sealings. The tablets ...