Long before there were maps or names for continents, a handful of people stood at the edge of the world. Picture them on a ...

Ancient humans living across Southeast Asian islands over 40,000 years ago were building sturdy, seafaring boats with plant ...

We now have only the second high-quality genome from an ancient Denisovan human, which reveals there were more populations of ...

Newly sequenced ancient genomes from Yunnan, China, have shed new light on human prehistory in East Asia. In a study published in Science, a research team led by Prof. Fu Qiaomei at the Institute of ...

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 ...

Preliminary studies showed that the ship, believed to date back to the 13th century, is made of saga wood. Read more at ...