New DNA evidence reveals that the cats of ancient China were not what they seemed.

In a groundbreaking study, researchers have unveiled that the feline companions of ancient China were not the domestic cats ...

Archaeologists have identified what appears to be the earliest clear evidence that ancient humans were not just tending ...

When winter sets in, and daylight is gone well before dinner, it’s hard not to notice how long the nights stretch on. For me, ...

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An Iowa State University scientist is part of an international team of researchers that has upended one of the most famous ...

Qingzhou Culture and Tourism Bureau invited Tian Qi, a painter and founder of Yunmenyin, to help villages integrate the arts ...

But many people assume, rather wrongly, that politics is not of considerable antiquity in this part of the global village. The broad geographical area later christened Nigeria by the British colonial ...

In Mesopotamia, Egypt and the Indus valley, the first urban settlements were built around irrigated farmland. Flooded terrace fields for rice, corn and quinoa accompanied the spread of civilization in ...

In a necropolis in present-day Bulgaria, archaeologists unearthed an unusual if not astonishing story ...

A single 4,000-year-old sheep tooth has turned a long-running mystery about an ancient plague into a concrete trail of ...

Cape Town and Chennai in recent years endured punishing droughts. Similar conditions afflicted Bengaluru and Hyderabad last ...