Wall St. Insights Roman, Egyptian, and Chinese civilizations had many different ingenious inventions.  Chocolate was a big ...

Less well-known are the musical instruments made of clay. They have been played in China since the Zhou dynasty (1046BC-256BC). Today, clay is one of the bayin, the eight categories into which ...

Many clay models are in the shape of servants, buildings, and other daily necessities. For archaeologists, the tombs and their burial objects became a sort of time capsule, as they are primary sources ...

China's long ... the basis of movable clay types. Bi Sheng created movable type printing more than four hundred years earlier than it was invented in Europe. According to ancient records, natural ...

Long before the first printed books, there were creative individuals who invented clever ways to keep records and tell ...

This piece of clay ... of writing comes from Mesopotamia and dates to about 3300 BC. In time different-looking writing appeared in the river valleys of Egypt, the Indus Valley, China and Central ...

In an earthen pit in central China, under what used to be their village’s persimmon orchard, three middle-aged women are hunched over an ancient jigsaw ... a heap of clay fragments into a ...

The United States has returned to Iran more than 1,000 clay tablets dating from the Achaemenid ... the repatriated tablets reflect how the ancient society was organised and its economy managed.

“The seals found during the first season of excavations point to extensive commercial exchanges in the ancient world,” Farmani said, highlighting the historical importance of the discovery. Among the ...

The United States has returned to Iran more than 1,000 clay tablets dating from the Achaemenid-era, official media said, reporting the sixth such handover of its kind. Iran's official IRNA news ...