To the untrained eye, a heap of crushed shells and some purple pottery ... ancient artifact →Farmer picks up 'trash' in field — then realizes he's holding rare Viking weapon In ancient Greek ...

On an Egyptian desert rock ridge west of Alexandria and between the Mediterranean sea and Lake Mariout is Kom el-Nugus, an archaeological site named for a mound roughly in the shape of a horseshoe, or ...

The Greeks pretty much invented the theatre. Thousands of people packed the hillside arena of ancient Athens to watch ... The Greeks' trademark red and black pottery was very fashionable, and ...

This wine jug (oinochoe) would have been used by everyday people across the Ancient Greek World ... The jug itself is of black-glazed pottery and although an everyday item it still shows a ...

The potter's wheel was widely used by the beginning of the third phase of the Early Bronze Age, about 2400 BCE. Pottery cannot be made by hand modeling or coiling without the potter either turning the ...

The exhibition includes pieces of ancient pottery. National Archaeological Museum ... Also on display are “the classic tools of grave robbers, spilloni [soil probes] through which gravediggers ...