The Kuwaiti-Polish Archaeological Mission (KPAM) has discovered a rare figurine (which mirrors statues from the Mesopotamian Ubaid culture) and evidence of local pottery production at Bahra 1. It is a ...

North-Mesopotamian Stone Ware is an unusual, dense and hard Early Bronze Age pottery, made for the most part from very special noncalcareous clays which were not used for any other ancient ...

While controversy abounds as to the origin of the fleur de lis, there is no denying it has been around for centuries, appearing in various forms on Mesopotamian pottery, ancient coins from Gaul and ...

Between 1968 and 1990, Donald P. Hansen and Vaughn E. Crawford directed six seasons of excavations at al-Hiba, the ancient Sumerian city-state Lagash. Overseen by Edward L. Ochsenschlager, the team ...

The Islamic scene -- The Umayyad caliphs (661-750 A.D.): the sources of Islamic ornament: and earlier contributions to the potter's technique -- First contacts with China: the Abbasid school of ...