Life in ancient Greece revolved around city-states, or poleis, each with its own identity. Athens stood as a beacon of democracy and learning, while Sparta was defined by ... mud bricks wooden beams ...

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 ...

In southern Iraq, archaeologists have excavated a remarkable collection of carved clay tablets—ancient records of Akkadia, the world’s oldest empire. Marked with the administrative details of ...

These artefacts, dating to the 26th Dynasty, provide insights into ancient Egyptian religious and ... The objects were stored inside a small broken pot but retained their condition following ...

There’s a lot of networks that we know from several parts of the continent, because we have pottery coming from ... be traced to a previously unknown ancient North African genetic lineage ...

It had been lodged inside a lump of clay New Research Researchers previously ... structures Cool Finds The 3-year-old picked up an ancient Canaanite scarab that dates back to the Middle Bronze ...

The tomb was found within an ancient Egyptian necropolis in Abydos ... archaeologists uncovered the remains of a pottery and glass workshop at Banawit, a village located north of Abydos.