Sangkhalok ceramics, an ancient product of the Silk Road and a combination of both Chinese and Thai cultures, are now being manufactured again and are winning new-found popularity due to the ceramics' ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... In ancient times, earth, air, fire and water were thought to constitute all physical things. Today’s understanding of the world’s makeup might be ...

China's first database on ancient pottery and ceramics was established recently, according to a recent international seminar on ceramic engineering and materials held in China's Capital of Ceramic, ...

Marine archaeologists have recovered a massive collection of 14th-century ceramics from the first ancient ...

Simply glazed, red terra cotta vessels and fine white porcelains perfected by the Chinese over several millennia reached their apogee during the 17th century Ming dynasty, and those forms are still ...

GREENWICH — The Connecticut Ceramics Study Circle is holding a daylong workshop on ancient Chinese ceramics with special emphasis on color. Patricia Hedlund, vice president of the Connecticut Ceramics ...

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 ...

If Scheherazade had added one more tale to her 1,001 Arabian Nights, it might have gone something like this: During the reign of our great Caliph Harun al-Rashid, a loyal subject gave to him a gift of ...

Further south, in the Don River basin, the menu changed. There, the “chefs” were obsessed with seeds. The foodcrusts were ...

6,000-year-old pottery reveals prehistoric humans cooked gourmet food with plants and fish, offering new insight into ancient ...

Scientists just blasted pottery from an ancient shipwreck with a "ray gun." Besides being totally sci-fi, the X-ray blaster revealed where the pottery came from. The wreck was a trade ship dating to ...