terracotta Archive

An oval furnace with a hub in the middle for keeping the crucible where artisans kept the copper ingots before fashioning them into artefacts. The furnace has holes for aeration and for inserting tuyeres to work up the flames. Photo:V.V. Krishnan

Fascinating Artifacts Excavated At Harappan Site In Rajasthan, India

AncientPages.com | June 10, 2017

AncientPages.com - The recently excavated, Harappan site, dubbed by archaeologists as 4MSR, is located about 10 kilometers from Anupgarh town in Rajasthan. Among many fascinating artifacts unearthed by archaeologists from ASI

Fragment of Greek terracotta statue. Image credit: Russia’s Academy of Sciences

Archaeology

Fragment Of Unique Ancient Greek Terracotta Statue Uncovered In Underwater Diggings

AncientPages.com | March 26, 2017

AncientPages.com - During underwater excavations near the Ak-Burun Cape, a place related to the Crimean bridge construction site, divers discovered a part of a unique, ancient Greek terra-cotta statue,

The heads have scarification marks (scars intentionally created to form patterns on the flesh) on the forehead, temples, and between the eyes. Six of the heads are human and the seventh is some kind of animal replica.

Artifacts

Mystery Of The Lydenburg Heads

AncientPages.com | June 13, 2014

A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - In 1957 a young boy, Karl-Ludvig "Ludi" von Bezing (now famous Austrian-South African mineral collector), saw pieces of some mysterious heads while playing