From her student days, she stubbornly refused to follow popular artistic trends. Instead, she spent decades exploring the ...

Halafian pottery shows that early agricultural societies practiced advanced mathematical thinking through plant-based art long before writing.

On a set of broken clay bowls from northern Mesopotamia, delicate flower patterns have turned out to be something far more radical than decoration. New analysis of this ancient art suggests that early ...

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An important work from a rediscovered artist has been absent from public view since the 1970s. A New York curator is hunting ...

Over 8,000 years ago, early farming communities in northern Mesopotamia were already thinking mathematically—long before numbers were written down. By closely studying Halafian pottery, researchers ...

A new study reveals that the Halafian culture of northern Mesopotamia (c. 6200–5500 BCE) produced the earliest systematic plant imagery in prehistoric art, flowers, shrubs, branches, and trees painted ...

Why so much coffee in the Bay Area started tasted like strawberries - and pineapple and coconut and many other things that ...

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Analysis by Hebrew University researchers shows 8,000-year-old Halafian pottery sherds bearing symmetry and numerical ...

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Resins and woods burned in spiritual ceremonies; myrrh as a symbol of prayer; Swiss stone pine extracted from tree needles; ...