ATHENS, GREECE—According to a Science in Poland report, archaeologist Bartłomiej Lis of the British School at Athens was able to track the movement of potters away from the island of Aegina some 3,200 ...

The Phoenicians were a Semitic-speaking people whose maritime trade networks were crucial for the spread of information and culture throughout the Mediterranean. We do not know what the Phoenicians ...

Just because scholars have analyzed ancient Greek pottery for centuries doesn’t mean they’ve uncovered all their secrets.

There were many similarities between ancient Greece and Egypt. The two civilizations were in close contact during the ...

“Picture Worlds: Greek, Maya, and Moche Pottery,” at the Michael C. Carlos Museum through Dec. 15, is a visually handsome work of meticulous scholarship that attempts to bridge some of the greatest ...

Pottery was produced in Greece as early as the Neolithic period, but the tradition of decorated ceramic vessels in Greece developed more quickly starting in the Bronze Age, a period that began around ...

If you ask today’s average American to name an image of a horse in ancient Greek culture, a likely response could be the Trojan Horse, the flying stallion Pegasus or the equestrian parade from the ...

Greek settlers arrived on the Black Sea seeking new opportunities; unknowingly, they created the longest-surviving ancient ...

In an archaeological achievement, researchers from Kumamoto University have successfully reconstructed the structure of prehistoric fishing nets from the Jomon period (ca. 14,000–900 BCE) by analyzing ...