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 ...

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 ...

The largest-yet analysis of ancient DNA in Africa, which includes the first ancient DNA recovered from members of the medieval Swahili civilization, has now broken the stalemate about the extent to ...

Archaeologists uncover early urban design in Taxila, offering new insights into how it contrasts with ancient Greek town planning.

As boisterous teenagers wage bloody beast wars in virtual universes at a clamorous downtown Seoul Internet cafe, a handful of men, oblivious to the din, stared transfixed at an ancient, slow-paced, ...

With Lost Kingdoms: Hindu-Buddhist Sculpture of Early Southeast Asia, 5th to 8th Century, the Metropolitan Museum of Art once again proves its stature as a world-class museum — not just because of its ...

When you think of Siberia, you probably conjure up images of a sparsely populated, icy tundra — albeit one that's less frozen these days. But from this remote place came a group of ancient peoples ...