Global Historic Story In An Ancient Chinese Map. Revisiting Ancient China's World Knowledge (a talk delivered at the Hong Kong Book Fair in July). By the late 16th century, before Europeans arrived in ...

Ancient Artifacts That Prove The Past Was More Advanced: 25 Ancient Myths That Archaeologists Want You to Forget: A golden-coated eye from Irans Burnt City. A clay cylinder some say was the first bill ...

Horses are herded along a highway linking the Alay Valley – a major part of the ancient Silk Road – with the city of Osh at the eastern edge of the Fergana valley. Credit: William Taylor Along a ...

Chinese scientists have successfully sequenced ancient human DNA dating back some 14,000 years, hinting at their potential links with Asian peoples who crossed over to the Americas at the end of the ...

The very first human beings originally emerged in Africa before spreading across Eurasia about 60,000 years ago. After that, the story of humankind heads down many different paths, some more ...

A young woman who lived on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi as early as around 7,300 years ago had a surprisingly ancient East Asian pedigree, mixed with a dash of Denisovan ancestry, a new study ...

A new study compiles data on more than 3,000 species to show how climate and geologic changes across Asia over the last 66 million years have shaped the evolution of the continent's mammals. A new ...

Ancient DNA from a 14,000-year-old skull found in south-west China reveals that the individual was a member of our species, Homo sapiens, and had genetic ties to the east Asian ancestors of Native ...

The idea that climate change and geological events can shape evolution isn’t a new one: anyone who’s heard of dinosaurs knows that a big change in the environment (like, say, a meteor hitting the ...