Millennia-old pottery remains from across Europe reveal that ancient communities in the region made elaborate meals using a ...

Burned crusts on ancient pottery reveal that Stone Age people cooked fish together with berries, seeds, and other plants.

Organic residues on pots from Northern and Eastern Europe show plants were an important part of the local diet several thousand years ago ...

Further south, in the Don River basin, the menu changed. There, the “chefs” were obsessed with seeds. The foodcrusts were packed with wild grasses and wild legumes, like clover, all cooked together ...

Learn how microscopic food traces in ancient pottery reveal the varied ingredients of prehistoric European cuisine.

A scientist, an Egyptologist, and a video-game designer are teaming up to unveil the culinary secrets of ancient Egypt by extracting traces of 4,500-year-old yeast from ancient pottery and using it to ...

In an archaeological achievement, researchers from Kumamoto University have successfully reconstructed the structure of prehistoric fishing nets from the Jomon period (ca. 14,000–900 BCE) by analyzing ...

A new Israeli research initiative is using cutting-edge scientific methods to solve one of archaeology’s oldest mysteries: where ancient pottery was made. The project, launched by the Israel ...

As the inane car insurance commercials suggest, ancient humans were smarter than we give them credit for. They created some of the same words we still use today. They even brewed beer. Now evidence ...

Bronze Age humans living in the Levant may have getting high on psychoactive drugs, according to a new study that found traces of opium in 3,500-year-old ceramic vessels from Tel Yehud, a Canaanite ...

New discoveries near city of Aswan reveal burial chambers from Old and Middle Kingdom periods, offering fresh insight into ancient funerary traditions - Anadolu Ajansı ...