(Related: Rediscovering China’s ancient Tea Horse Road, a branch of the famous Silk Road.) Nuodeng, a former Tea Horse Trail town, has some of the best-preserved examples of traditional Bai ...

While there is no place on Earth where one river splits into all four, a late 1290s European world map features such a ...

The continent called Greater Adria resurfaces in the scientific community, bringing with it a new way of understanding the Earth's movements. It was nearly 240 million years ago: Greater Adria had ...

Ancient Greece has traditionally been periodized into five eras: the Bronze Age, Iron Age, Archaic Age, Classical Age, and ...

A newly uncovered ancient Egyptian tomb is shedding light ... technology that uses sound waves to map structures below Earth’s surface, as well as magnetometry, which creates maps of structures ...

Salem et al. compared their results with genomic data from 795 present-day and 117 ancient individuals from Africa, southwest Asia and Europe. They showed that the Takarkori pastoralists are ...

Discovery in China of tools called Quina scrapers suggests the people of East Asia were as inventive and flexible with ...

“Since early on in the Western encounter with India, European travellers have been ... traditional modes of representation (for example maps) and new kinds of images emerged.

Now, a farmer is reviving this ancient "superfood". It's a hot and muggy summer day in Sicily's Madonie mountains, a rugged range of ridges about 65km east of Palermo. In a field of ash trees ...

Democracies in Europe and their detractors in Washington have radically different understandings of why the continent depends on American military protection. Donald Trump and his aides constantly ...