Two pages into Jennifer Lucy Allan’s “Clay: A Human History,” I was brought up short. It turns out that small fragments of ...

With at least four federally recognized native American tribes in the Coachella Valley, plus branches of others, it's not surprising that a southwestern aesthetic lives here side-by-side with ...

The clay tablets are the first cuneiform tablets ... They were uncovered by Tiffany Earley-Spadoni, an associate professor of history at the university, and a team of archaeologists.