Mesopotamia, Anatolia, and Iran
The oldest ceramic objects found in this region in Jericho (Palestine). Younger discovery is in Hacilar and Anatolia (Turkey) which date from about the 6th millennium BC. These objects are made by hand directly shaped base of the cylinder.
These objects adorned with scratches, stripes, zig-zag, and diamon. Slip clay color has been used to add color / paint. Other Penumuan consecutive Samara region (northern Mesopotamia) and Susa (the eastern part of Mesopotamia) in the 5th century BC or 4th.
In that century also began to find objects in the form of thin-walled ceramic dinnerware drink, vases, bottles, etc.. Geometric patterns begin to look is complemented by ornate images of humans, animals, and plants. Ornate red / black. Ceramics is growing in Iran formed object with a rotary tool, painted with slip. Motof-developed motif is floral motifs and geometric shapes of animals.
Egypt
Ceramic ancient Egyptian form of rough, dark, was made in the Faiyum region, the low-lying Nile Valley in the Neolithic period around 4500 BC. The black color on the Egyptian ceramic combustion occurs because of the way that time, where the flame position is above the ceramic objects, causing a lot of ash that covers the objects, so that objects in the lack of air.
People who live in the Nile Delta possibilities have known better burners, ceramic proved that they produce a brighter picture decorated with ships, birds, and religious symbols. In the early period, the Egyptians have known glaze called faience. This glaze is made of silica and soda dicambur with clay and is colored with cobalt oxide or copper.
