Discover how potters in the walled oasis of Qurayyah exported what may have been some of history's earliest “branded” goods ...

(PhysOrg.com) -- In order to better understand how ceramics are able to resist heat, the National Science Foundation has awarded grants totaling half a million dollars to three research groups to look ...

A distinctive painted pottery tradition from a Saudi Arabian oasis may represent one of the earliest examples of ancient ...

(Phys.org) -- Another look at a nearly 80-year-old pottery collection at the Arizona State Museum is yielding new information about migrants who abandoned the Four Corners region. Approximately eight ...

The pottery was previously known as “Midianite Pottery,” but researchers analyzed several dozen vessels and determined that it originated in Qurayyah. The first examples of what is now called Qurayyah ...

A Bronze Age oasis brand from Qurayyah in Saudi Arabia shows that product identity and long-distance trade existed 3,200 ...

Painted over the enormous midsection of the Dipylon amphora—a nearly 2,800-year-old clay vase from Greece—silhouetted figures surround a corpse in a funeral scene. Intricate geometric patterns zig and ...

Talk about "legacy brands", this one remained popular from the Bronze Age all the way through to the Iron Age.

The colorful pottery created by the ancient Paracas culture, which depicts a variety of abstract forms, people, and animals, would have perked up their drab surroundings on the southern Peruvian ...

New lipid residue analyses have revealed a dominance of animal products, such as the meat of animals like pigs, cattle, buffalo, sheep and goat as well as dairy products, used in ancient ceramic ...

Ancient Roman archaeological sites are littered with ceramic pots, and it can be challenging to definitively determine the purpose of any given pot—for instance, if it was used for storage or as a ...

“This is, without a doubt, the most incredible discovery of my life,” free-diver Giacomo De Mila said ...