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How Romans Built Pots in Britain

Many centuries ago, the borders of the Roman Empire were spread out all the way to Britain, and a permanent garrison was stationed there at all times, to prevent attacks. During their stay, the soldiers made huge numbers of pots, and experts now believe they know how. The fighters were stationed alongside Hadrian...

21 January 2011
03:53 GMT

Newly Found Civilization Predates the Wheel

At the junction of the Euphrates and Balikh rivers, in what is now northern Syria, archaeologists are discovering more and more details about a prehistoric civilization that lived here before the invention of the wheel. The location, called the mound of Tell Zeidan in the Euphrates River Valley, near Raqqa, has remai...

7 April 2010
03:04 GMT

Ancient Wall May Have Been Built by King Solomon

Researchers have recently made a finding that could prove to be very important for determining the history of Israel. Excavations near the capital have uncovered a new segment of wall, which appears to have been built between 1000 BC and 901BC. Therefore, experts believe that it may have been the work of the historic...

23 February 2010
01:24 GMT

Pottery Is 1,000 Years Older than First Estimated

While investigating a cave in the southern Chinese province of Hunan, archaeologists discovered pottery fragments more than 18,000 years old, the most ancient ones ever found. Until now, the oldest pieces of ceramics ever found were created between 15,000 and 16,000 years ago, also in East Asia. While, for the rest o...

2 June 2009
16:51 GMT

Police Captures Roman Artifacts Dug by Farmer

In Italy, all the ancient artifacts found are considered the property of the state and should be reported to the authorities. The law forbids selling such items and the sentences are quite harsh. Yet, that's exactly what a farmer in the southern part of the country did. As he was carrying his works, he came upon...

18 December 2008
08:36 GMT

Millennia-Old Roman Oil Lamp Factory Discovered

Italian archaeologists have uncovered an ancient pottery factory, where the oil lamps that were most used throughout the old Roman empire had been produced. As with most findings in this field of research, the discovery has been made accidentally, during excavation works carried in order to raise a residential comple...

6 December 2008
23:01 GMT

Six and a Half Millennia Old Greek Village Discovered

As it frequently happens, some dig works destined for maintenance and building purposes have lead to the accidental discovery of an ancient village close to Vassili village located in the central Thessaly periphery of Greece, about 170 miles (280 kilometers) north of Athens. While attempting to place a gas pipe, duri...

21 November 2008
08:44 GMT

Almost Three-Millennia-Old Pottery Found in Lebanon

Ancient pottery belonging to the Phoenician civilization has been discovered at a dig site in Lebanon, by a mixed Lebanese and Spanish team of archaeologists. The largest of the earthen recipients found were used to store earthly remains of the dead, as the study indicates. Over 100 such jars, thought to be about 2,...

13 November 2008
06:10 GMT

Possible Oldest Hebrew Text Sparks Biblical Debates

Following the recent association of an ancient copper mine with King Solomon, another such example comes in the form of the discovery of a pottery shard containing what appears to be possibly the oldest Hebrew inscription ever found. The Israeli archaeologist who made the discovery associates the three-millennia-old ...

3 November 2008
09:42 GMT

Confiscated Pottery Leads to 2,000-Year-Old Lost Tribe

Some smugglers from Philippine were trying to transport 22 bags of ancient pottery out of the country, in order to sell it abroad for a large sum of money. The local police captured them, together with the unearthed goods, but the antique pieces of pottery proved to be a big surprise for experts. The scientists at t...

27 October 2008
03:09 GMT

Unusual Mayan Skeleton Found in an Ancient Tomb

An entombed human skeleton believed to be of an elite member of the ancient Maya Empire found in Honduras could explain more about the "Apocalypto" civilization. The upright located body, surrounded by shells, pottery, vessels and jade adornments was dated around 650 A.D. and comes with many surprises about the comp...

19 May 2007
03:56 GMT


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