Archaeologists have unlocked a portal to the past through an object that might seem mundane at first glance: a sun-dried ...

Revealing the secrets of a 2900-year-old clay brick, discovering a time capsule of ancient DNA. Scientific Reports , 2023; 13 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-38191-w Cite This Page : ...

Ancient bricks inscribed with the names of Mesopotamian kings have yielded important insights into a mysterious anomaly in Earth’s magnetic field 3,000 years ago, according to a new study ...

Before glass sparkled or steel shone, before skyscrapers touched the sky or plastic filled our shelves, there was clay.

Clay bricks from the building projects of ancient kings recorded a historical “map” of changes in the Earth’s magnetic field, a new study has found. About 3,000 years ago, for reasons that ...

“To some people a brick is a brick is a brick,” Basil Saffer said as he reached into a glass case and lifted out a 10,000-year-old lump of sun-dried clay.“But take any brick here, I can talk ...

About 3,000 years ago in ancient Mesopotamia, brickmakers imprinted the names of their kings into clay bricks. Now, an analysis of the metal grains in those bricks has confirmed a mysterious ...

Revealing the secrets of a 2900 year old clay brick, discovering a time capsule of ancient DNA. Nature Scientific Reports . 2023. doi: 10.1038/s41598-023-38191-w. This article has been republished ...

Currently housed at the National Museum of Denmark, the clay brick originates from the palace of Neo-Assyrian king Ashurnasirpal II, in the ancient city of Kalhu. Known today as the North-West palace ...