Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The skeleton of a middle-aged man excavated from the Huiyaotian site in Nanning, in China's Guangxi province, is over 9,000 years ...

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, ...

As boisterous teenagers wage bloody beast wars in virtual universes at a clamorous downtown Seoul Internet cafe, a handful of men, oblivious to the din, stared transfixed at an ancient, slow-paced, ...

With Lost Kingdoms: Hindu-Buddhist Sculpture of Early Southeast Asia, 5th to 8th Century, the Metropolitan Museum of Art once again proves its stature as a world-class museum — not just because of its ...

Chinese scientists have successfully sequenced ancient human DNA dating back some 14,000 years, hinting at their potential links with Asian peoples who crossed over to the Americas at the end of the ...

Colors and Color Symbolism in Ancient China -- Colors and Color Symbolism in Early Chinese Ritual Art : Red and Black and the Formation of the Five Colors System / Guolong Lai -- Tomb and Grotto ...

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 ...