Newly sequenced ancient genomes from Yunnan, China, have shed new light on human prehistory in East Asia. In a study ...

A study of more than 100 genomes from people who lived in ancient China has unmasked a "ghost" in their midst.

Newly sequenced ancient genomes from Yunnan, China, have shed new light on human prehistory in East Asia. In a study ...

Archaeologists have found the remains of a Roman fortress in northern Sinai. The discovery illuminates the Roman Empire’s ...

Shi’s Star Catalog has been notoriously difficult to date, but new research suggests astronomers drafted it centuries before its Western counterpart.

For more than two thousand years, people have mapped the stars. But a new study claims one of the world’s oldest surviving ...

According to a controversial new study the world's oldest star map, known as the Star Manual of Master Shi, was created in ...

These artifacts are helping archaeologists piece together the complex trade networks and cultural exchanges that occurred in ancient East Asia, revealing that these ... These finds have allowed ...

Archaeologists have thought that ancient people in East Asia completely skipped the Middle Paleolithic. Our discovery challenges the long-standing notion that while ancient people in Europe and ...

The discovery challenges the widely held perception that the Middle Paleolithic period was mostly static in East Asia. While the Middle Paleolithic period is viewed as a dynamic time in European ...

While the Middle Paleolithic period is viewed as a dynamic time in European and African history, it is commonly considered a static period in East Asia. New research from the University of ...

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