India’s history is a tapestry woven with the rise and fall of magnificent cities, some of which have faded from modern maps ...

A collection of artefacts collected 2,500 years ago in modern-day Iraq reveal the forgotten world of Mesopotamia, home to ...

A newly spotlighted artifact from ancient Mesopotamia is offering a rare window into how one of the world’s earliest ...

A set of documents from more than a thousand years ago that depict the history of cultural exchanges between Japan and China will be included in UNESCO’s Memory of the World register. UNESCO’s ...

At Ancient Origins, we believe that one of the most important fields of knowledge we can pursue as human beings is our beginnings. And while some people may seem content with the story as it stands, ...

An analysis of an ancient jawbone discovered in Taiwan indicates ... with their genes present beyond mainland Asia as far as Australia. Further research is required to identify other possible ...

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.

when the sea level was so low that Taiwan was linked to Asia by a land bridge. But in 2010, a Taiwanese paleontologist was presented with a particularly odd find: a fossil that looked like half a ...

Mineral formations in caves reveal recurring periods of humidity in the Arabian Desert over the last 8 million years.

Part of the group’s theology, though, was rooted in ancient Buddhist beliefs that had shaped mainstream ... Surviving Buddhist art from the Kamakura period — some of which is on display in Asia ...

The state hasn’t kept track, so now lawmakers want to create a database with maps of where those ancient ponds are located. It’s the first step in restoring a key component of native food ...