Long before anyone wrote down a number, early villagers were painting flowers with a precision that looks suspiciously like ...

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 ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Peter Watson: That was an accident of history. When I was choosing a project for my PhD I wanted to ...