A recent study is shedding new light on the unique burial practices of an ancient Chinese culture that interred their dead in ...

China hopes to become a global leader in protected nature reserves, creating a network of wilderness that would be three ...

There’s culture, there’s tradition—and then there’s drinks. From Italy’s historical north to the tip of the boot, options ...

A century after the disappearance of explorer George Mallory, his photos and diary offer a valuable baseline for ...

The Bronze Age Xiaohe culture (ca. 1950–1400 BCE) is renowned for its distinctive funerary practices and exceptional organic ...

China dominates the global rare earths industry—and it’s not even close. A fight is already underway to lay claim to this ...

Beneath sea urchins’ exterior spines, rounded skeletons called tests are jewels of color, texture, and symmetry. There are hundreds of urchin species, and they’re found in every ocean on ...

A new study argues that ancient rattles unearthed in Syria aren ... small hands,” says archaeologist Mette Marie Hald from the National Museum of Denmark in Copenhagen.

Evidence suggests the tools were used by the human relative Paranthropus, which scientists previously believed relied only on its teeth and jaws to eat. Scientists have unearthed more than 300 ...

Pigs have long been known, sometimes celebrated, as among the most intelligent of farm animals. Now, a new Dartmouth-led ...

A lone tree growing along an ancient Roman wall was a beloved fixture ... They have since been taken by the conservation nonprofit The National Trust, and 49 of them— one for each foot the ...

The next year, the Republic of China made the site a national museum. Northwest towerThe entire Forbidden City is surrounded by a wall more than 25 feet high. At each of the four corners stands an ...