Russian archaeologists have claimed that baked earthenware was produced 15,000 years ago by the inhabitants of Khabarovsk. “It was the first earthenware on the globe, and though it was primitive, with plain decoration, and poorly baked, yet it was a significant landmark in the history of mankind,” said Andrei Malyavin of the Khabarovsk Archaeology Museum. […]

Rescue excavations in southeastern Turkey at the site of the Ilisu Dam uncovered an Assyrian governor’s palace dating to 900 to 700 B.C. Five elaborate cremation burials and 20 bronze vessels were discovered beneath the stones of its courtyard. A mound atop a Bronze Age cremation burial was found in Bulgaria. The ashes had been […]