A 5,000-year-old mystery surrounding how a collection of ostrich eggs got their colorful decorations may have finally been cracked. Ornate eggs were prized items among the elite circles of ...

If you wanted to give an extravagant gift 5,000 years ago, you might have chosen an ostrich egg. Now some of these beautiful Easter egg-sized objects are in London's British Museum. The eggs were ...

Using the British Museum's collection of ostrich eggs from the Mediterranean and Middle East, isotopic analyses of strontium, oxygen and carbon in the eggshells are being used to investigate where ...

Decorated egg from the Isis Tomb, Italy ∏ Credit: Tamar Hodos, University of Bristol with the permission of the Trustees of the British Museum Today, if you want to show off that you’ve made it, you ...

Yannis A. Sakellarakis, “The Fashioning of Ostrich Egg Rhyta in the Creto-Mycenaean Aegean,” in Thera and the Aegean World III, vol. 1, Archaeology, ed. David A. Hardy, Christos G. Doumas, ...

A 5,000-year-old mystery surrounding how a collection of ostrich eggs got their colorful decorations may have finally been cracked. Ornate eggs were prized items among the elite circles of ...

If you wanted to give an extravagant gift 5,000 years ago, you might have chosen an ostrich egg. Now some of these beautiful Easter egg-sized objects are in London's British Museum.

A 5,000-year-old mystery surrounding how a collection of ostrich eggs got their colorful decorations may have finally been cracked. Ornate eggs were prized items among the elite circles of ...

Five Easter-egg sized decorated ostrich eggs in the British Museum are the subject of a new study.