Their red and black pottery was very famous ... The most successful Athenian playwright was Sophocles, who won so many Greek theatre competitions that he became a big celebrity.

Picture Worlds at the Michael C. Carlos Museum looks at pottery from three ancient cultures: Greek, Maya and Moche.

ancient pottery fragments and used them to recreate the treasures of antiquity. The Metropolitan Museum of Art rebuilt two classical Greek drinking cups from random shards that arrived at the Met ...