The growing paleopathological literature shows that scurvy was not a rare problem among people living in the ancient Asia-Pacific tropics. Scurvy is increasingly identified throughout the region, ...

West Asia is a region where history meets the modern world. It sits at the crossroads of three continents: Asia, Africa, and ...

A rare visit to a Khmer temple on Thailand and Cambodia’s border showed how deadly clashes between the two countries have scarred a heritage site.

Researchers have discovered 30 inscriptions written in Indian languages, which provide new evidence that visitors from India ...

The Soviet Union severed Central Asia’s ancient trade routes to the Indian subcontinent. The region’s modern-day leaders want ...

Humans have practiced head shaping for tens of thousands of years, and anthropologists are beginning to uncover clues as to ...

Peter Tran recounts a 2025 Jubilee pilgrimage along the Via Francigena to Rome. Discover the spiritual depth, physical ...

The preference of some mosquitoes in the Anopheles leucosphyrus (Leucosphyrus) group—including those that transmit malaria—for feeding on humans may have evolved in response to the arrival of early ...

From the Qin Dynasty in China to the Mughal courts of India under Humayun and Shah Jahan, seviyan or vermicelli has travelled across trade routes, evolving into Eid classics like sheer khurma and ...

I’ve never quite understood why tourists can’t help but write things like, “Gayoung was here.” But archaeological records ...

Human ancestor species Homo erectus arrived in East Asia hundreds of thousands of years earlier than previously thought, a new fossil discovery in China shows. Homo erectus, a distant ancestor of ...

The Ionian League, was a confederation of twelve Ionian Greek city-states located along the coast of Asia Minor.