As an archaeologist, I understand that the darkened layer left when fire sweeps through a city draws a sharp line in time ...

As Sudrashish Sen, dressed as Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, delivered a powerful speech reenacting the historic escape from ...

A few dozen yards away, in a dirty T-shirt, faded camo shorts and black work boots ... Nicola Muirhead Sherds of 17th-century pottery and fragments of a clay pipe found at the dig site on Smith ...

Each structure has distinctive architecture that draws on local, Egyptian and Greco-Roman decorative tastes—evidence of Meroe ... mats in the sand sell small clay replicas of the pyramids.

That black dirt was a burn layer ... mostly yielded small finds: the pottery that families used to store, prepare and consume food and drink; small clay figurines that may have been children ...

When the Squibnocket Pond Reservation opens to the public this spring, the 323-acre property will call attention to a ...

In 1980, a Cornell graduate found a piece of Native pottery while surveying ... they discovered a thin, black, organic layer known as the “A-horizon.” This is the prehistoric surface of the island ...

Tucked away in the scenic town of Lansing, where the New River carves its ancient path through West Virginia’s majestic gorge, sits a honey-colored wooden building that houses more treasures than ...

she is able to form life-like images of the Black men, women, and children we see in our homes and on our street corners every day. Based in Maryland, the sculptor works delicately with clay to ...