Visitors are invited to make clay offerings to a kiln altar in the gallery, as the student artists did before their pieces ...

In a significant breakthrough at the San Isidro archaeological site in El Salvador, archaeologists uncovered five ancient clay figurines atop a pyramid. These figurines, known as Bolinas figurines ...

Archaeologists uncovered ancient puppet-like figurines. Estimated to be around 2,400 years old, they oddly resemble modern ...

Archaeologists in El Salvador found a collection of clay puppets from the pre-Columbian El Salvador that they dated to around 400 B.C. The level of realism, both in the facial features and movement, ...

At the underwater archaeology site of Gran Carro di Bolsena in Aiola, Italy, divers found an ancient clay figurine pegged to be from the 9th or 10th century BC. The ritualistic-looking item was ...

Between 9600 and 4100 B.C. This unique carved amber bear was discovered in northern Poland by workers digging for peat in ...

When a vast library of texts amassed by Mesopotamian King Ashurbanipal was burned to the ground about 2700 years ago, the clay tablets were preserved by the heat. Selena Wisnom's new book reveals more ...

In the volcanic depths of Lake Bolsena in central Italy, archaeologists found a 3,000-year-old clay figurine. The figurine resembles a female form and still bears the fingerprints of the ancient ...

“The size of the larger figurines, along with the ability to move their heads, inevitably provokes an analogy with modern toy dolls. Clay is not ... of the creators of ancient settlements ...

The camels-decorated 1,200-years-old clay jug. A rare and striking red-painted ... Alongside the olive press, an ancient Byzantine-period synagogue discovered earlier at the site has undergone ...

The Greek municipality of Tenea boasts a rich ancient history—and the archaeological ... perfume bottles, clay figurines, and a gold ring embedded with a semi-precious stone signet featuring ...