African pottery dates back thousands of years, with artifacts discovered in archaeological sites across the continent. These ...

Scientists have for the first time sequenced the most complete and oldest ancient Egyptian genome ever found—unlocking new ...

(CN) — A fresh look into ancient pottery fragments has revealed the earliest known evidence of honey hunting, indicating that prehistoric African societies used the sweet substance. Crafted within ...

Although all terracotta pottery is fired in order to harden and preserve it – otherwise, ... Ancient African sculpture discovered after 2,000 years in the mud ...

Researchers in the UK have extracted and sequenced the oldest Egyptian DNA to date from an individual who lived more than ...

Animal herders living in what was a grassy part of North Africa’s Sahara Desert around 7,000 years ago had a taste for cattle milk, or perhaps milk products such as butter.

Dating back more than 4,500 years, the skeleton belonged to a middle-aged man who may have worked as a potter and likely ...

A team of scientists, led by the University of Bristol, with colleagues from Goethe University, Frankfurt, has found the first evidence for ancient honey hunting, locked inside pottery fragments ...

The early invention of pottery around 10,000 years ago in this region, crucial in facilitating plant processing, suggests that West African plant cuisine may be thousands of years older than was ...

But while experts now know a fair amount about ancient Egyptian life, they still understand very little about the ...