"The ancient Silk Road routes functioned like a major artery for civilizational engagement between the East and West, ...

Whether it's the sacking of Babylon or the fall of the Roman Empire, we often assume the downfall of ancient civilizations comes down to one thing: war. Historians had assumed the same about another ...

The largest-ever study of ancient human DNA, along with the first genome of an individual from the ancient Indus Valley Civilization, reveal in unprecedented detail the shifting ancestry of Central ...

Stone tool analysis of sites in Southeast Asia provided evidence that the area was a technological leader in seafaring. Archaeology supports that, 40,000 years ago, the people living in Southeast Asia ...

In Thailand, a crew digging beneath a Buddha statue at a Buddhist temple stumbled upon stunning 1,300-year-old gold treasures ...

New DNA evidence from ancient burial sites reveals how early Chinese civilization developed through migration, farming, and ...

New research on the '4.2 ka BP climatic event' provides rich insights into how rainfall in the northwest of South Asia changed over the critical period between 5400 and 3000 years ago. Climate change ...

Who were the people of the medieval Swahili civilization? Ancient DNA reveals African founders intermingled with migrants from southwest Asia around 1000 CE Findings complicate scientific views as ...

For centuries, scholars have been baffled by one question: How did the islands of Southeast Asia become populated so early in human history? While researchers have long assumed that the migration ...