Flower designs on 8,000-year-old Mesopotamian pots reveal a “mathematical knowledge” perhaps developed to share land and crops, archaeologists say.

A machine learns to categorize pottery comparable to expert archaeologists, matches designs among thousands of broken pieces. Archaeologists at Northern Arizona University are hoping a new technology ...

Over 16 years, multiple people gave or sold the Met museum pottery shards that surprisingly came from the same ancient drinking cup. The cup was rebuilt, a seeming marvel of scholarship and luck, as ...

Images of plants painted on pottery made up to 8,000 years ago may be the earliest example of humans’ mathematical thought, a study has found. Researchers from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem ...