Found etched into clay cylinders in Syria, the strange symbols date to around 2400 B.C.E.—500 years before other known alphabetic scripts ...

The early writing appears to date to around 2400 B.C.—preceding the previous most bygone examples by roughly 500 years.

A discovery by accident led to a massive historic revelation in the Italian Alps where beneath the melting snow lay fossilized proof of a prehistoric ecosystem that dated back 280 million years. They ...

A finger-sized clay cylinder from a tomb in northern Syria appears to be the oldest example of writing using an alphabet ...

Five members of an antigovernment group, God's Misfits, are charged in Texas County District Court with first-degree murder in their deaths. Two of the defendants have agreed to testify against the ...

In a tasteful exploration of both people and place, Kengo Kuma and Associates have completed UCCA Clay Museum, a ...

Curling leaves and pinched patterns cloak the bold vessels of artist Paul S. Briggs. Using a slab-building technique, he ...

A stunning fossilized world containing remnants of amphibians, skin prints, plants, and seeds was discovered in the melting ...

I immediately bought it, and honestly, that was the start of my all-things ceramic and Sugar Cream Clay collection. At the ...

L.A. ceramist Linda Hsiao's hand-built vessels — owls, birds and mythological creatures — exhibit a playful style that is ...

This is the third part in an occasional series on silicosis. The San Fernando Valley is the epicenter of silicosis cases in ...

This month the marmalade-loving bear whose story was inspired by the Kindertransport hits the big screen in Peru. I make the ...