Long before there were maps or names for continents, a handful of people stood at the edge of the world. Picture them on a ...

We now have only the second high-quality genome from an ancient Denisovan human, which reveals there were more populations of ...

The deluge swamped Hoi An's lantern-lit streets and centuries-old wooden houses, with residents saying they had never experienced flooding of this scale before.

Ancient humans living across Southeast Asian islands over 40,000 years ago were building sturdy, seafaring boats with plant ...

Hunter-gatherers in parts of ancient Asia prepared their dead for burial with smoke-drying up to 14,000 years ago, resulting in the oldest known evidence of human mummification, according to a new ...

Imagine a time when intellectual and cultural treasures traveled as freely as spices, gems, and silk. A time when India wasn’t merely a land of spirituality but the beating heart of a cultural and ...

While more evidence is needed to link paleo-Americans to Japan, it is possible that they came by boat instead of crossing the ...

A horse bone unearthed from the mausoleum of Emperor Wen of the Western Han Dynasty Photo: CCTV News. DNA analysis of horse ...

Preliminary studies showed that the ship, believed to date back to the 13th century, is made of saga wood. Read more at ...

President Trump received a replica of a golden crown excavated from an ancient royal tomb in Gyeongju. He called it “very ...