The researchers drilled into the seafloor off the coast of Western Antarctica and brought up a three-meter-long chunk of mudstone. It had rested underneath nearly 1,000m of frigid seawater and ...

It is made from mudstone, which is fossilised compressed mud, and the stains visible in the photograph are probably from the next stratum of rock. In Ancient Egypt woman and men both wore ...

Scholars attempted to reconstruct technology of loom weight bead making and they studied the manufacturing technique from the Iron Age. These beads were made of clay and the mudstone particles and ...