Researchers at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, the U.K., have made the thrilling discovery of a 4,000-year-old handprint on an ancient Egyptian funerary object, in the course of preparing a major ...

Archaeologists working at the ancient site of Athribis in Upper Egypt have now cataloged more than 43,000 inscribed pottery sherds, making it one of the largest collections of its kind ever assembled ...

A 4,000-year-old handprint has been discovered on a clay model used for offerings in an Ancient Egyptian tomb. Researchers from Cambridge University’s Fitzwilliam Museum, in the United Kingdom, ...

Archaeologists working across Egyptian burial sites have recovered coffins made from strikingly different materials, from ...

Variations on a theme : regional diversity in the predynastic pottery of upper Egyptian settlements / Renée Friedman -- Incense burners of the late predynastic period in Egypt : an examination of the ...

Researchers in Egypt have discovered a massive trove of what amount to ancient notepads. The 43,000 ostraca—sherds of broken pottery onto which Egyptians scrawled short messages—were excavated from ...

The Louisiana Art & Science Museum, 100 S. River Road, will feature local ceramicist Bill Moore in its Studio Saturdays series from 10 a.m. to noon on May 17. Moore will lead a hands-on, open-format ...