In the sweltering summer of AD18, a desperate chant echoed across China's sun-scorched plains: "Heaven has gone blind!" ...

Excavations on unpromising mounds in the Iraqi desert revealed Sumer’s earliest city. Surviving relics and a rebuilt temple ...

What roils beneath the Earth's surface may feel a world away, but the activity can help forge land masses that dictate ocean circulation, climate patterns, and even animal activity and evolution. In ...

And one of the main ideas in the book is that the Silk Road has come to dominate our understanding of ancient Asia, the idea that there was this sort of motorway overland running from the ...

The swift reimposition of tariffs, including on key Asian economies, signals that the United States has radically discounted the value of normative geopolitics, unleashing a deluge of uncertainty.

explained that ancient India was the centre of global trade, linking Rome, Southeast Asia, and China through maritime routes. Citing Roman historian Pliny, he noted that India was viewed as “the drain ...

New research is shedding light on the lives of these ancient humans. Around 50,000 years ago ... that the group mixed with humans moving in from other regions of Africa and Asia. PhD student Nada ...

KUNMING, April 6 (Xinhua) -- Researchers have uncovered the first definitive evidence of Middle Paleolithic Quina technology in East Asia, shedding new light on the evolution of the region's early ...

A digital map of ancient Greece and the known ancient world as traveled by ancient geographers has been created by researchers at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. The map lets users ...

Wrinkly-skinned giants did not only inhabit Africa and southern Asia, but roamed from prehistoric Portugal across Eurasia, to the chilly landscapes of ancient Alaska and down into South America.

The latest rising star is farro, an ancient grain trending across South Korea. Farro, an Italian word meaning ancient wheat grain, is often used to describe three different grains – einkorn ...