New research has revealed bone powder was a crucial substance as ancient China's Peiligang culture emerged from a ...

An overview of Ancient Greek art, including painting, sculpture and architecture, and a look at how it changed over the years ...

While still a graduate student at Johns Hopkins University, UC Santa Cruz professor Elaine Sullivan unearthed ancient ...

In the ancient past, the people of southern Brazil gathered to celebrate seasonal fish migrations with feasts and fermented ...

Now let’s segue to ancient Greek pottery. It’s an art form that, in addition to depicting mythology ... Museums around the world have examples of smaller vessels like lekythoi which were oil flasks, ...

Scientists say pre-colonial people in Brazil may have gathered in summer months to feast on fish and share alcoholic drinks.

An international team of scientists has tentatively found some of the earliest indications of alcoholic drink production in the Patos Lagoon region of Brazil. State-of-the-art analysis of pottery ...

In ancient previews of the famous Brazilian Carnival, pre-colonial people in Brazil apparently gathered in summer months to feast on migratory fish and share alcoholic drinks, a new study has determin ...

She said the ancient objects are each about the size ... and the cylinders that Elaine found were actually quite near these pottery vessels,” said Sullivan. “That’s why I think they were ...

The team headed to Harvard University’s Peabody Museum in Cambridge, where they were granted permission to collect the yeast and bacteria that was hibernating in the pores of the museum’s ancient ...