1.   He shows how the clay jars called amphoras were bound with straw to protect them, much like Chianti bottles are today.

2.   Here are fresco murals of dolphins and partridges, clay jars decorated with sinuous octopuses and palm trees, and sculpted figures of dancers and harvesters.

3.   They said the village appeared to have been recently abandoned, and they found some of the same white powder stored in clay jars there.

4.   While digging a trial tunnel near the Acropolis, excavators sliced through an ancient well and a cascade of hundreds of clay jars and shards spilled forth.

5.   A group of elderly men passed cups of rice wine from a clay jar swarming with flies to villagers gathered around the remains.

6.   Archeologists who scraped residue from the bottom of a broken clay jar have cooked up Bronze Age beer.