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A 2,100-Year-Old Adrasan Shipwreck Still Holds an Ancient Delivery That Never Arrived
Somewhere in the eastern Mediterranean around 2,100 years ago, merchants loaded thousands of newly made plates, bowls and serving dishes onto a ship and prepared them for a journey that would never reach its destination. The vessel sank off what is now Adrasan, on Türkiye’s southern coast, taking its commercial cargo to the seabed. More…
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1,400-Year-Old Moche Pottery Workshops Found in Peru
Archaeologists excavating Cerro Mayal on Peru’s northern coast have uncovered new evidence of 1,400-year-old Moche pottery workshops, revealing how one of the ancient Andes’ most distinctive ceramic traditions was produced. The excavations, in the Chicama Valley of the La Libertad region, have exposed ceramic molds, potters’ plates, large quantities of production waste and architectural remains…
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Japan’s Oldest Underwater Pottery Discovery Reveals a 10,000-Year-Old Technological Breakthrough Beneath Lake Biwa
It began with a sweep of robotic sensors moving silently across the dark floor of Lake Biwa. What appeared first as a faint geometric outline soon resolved into one of the most extraordinary archaeological finds in Japan’s recent history: a nearly intact pottery vessel more than 10,000 years old, resting upright in the silt.Recovered near…