BAGHDAD, Feb. 11 (Xinhua) -- Iraq's culture and foreign ministries announced Tuesday the retrieval of antiquities from Switzerland and Japan.

If not for the work of two scholars, Alice Kober and Michael Ventris, the ancient Greek script Linear B would likely still be a mystery.

A study tracking rainfall patterns over thousands of years has found that more arid periods coincided with ages of dynastic ...

In the restoration lab of the Shaanxi History Museum in Xi'an, Shaanxi province, a group of young people is engaged in a ...

Through nuclear genome research, Chinese scientists have recently discovered that people from the Ryukyu Islands have ...

The findings underscore Shandong's role as a genetic bridge connecting inland, coastal, and island populations over millennia. By integrating north-south and east-west perspectives, the study ...

Keyu Jin, London School of Economics professor, joins CNBC's 'Squawk on the Street' to discuss how China is approaching ...

BEIJING, Feb. 10 (Xinhua) -- A study on ancient genomes from east China's Shandong Province has revealed the complex migration and integration patterns of populations in East Asia spanning over 6,000 ...

A groundbreaking pilot excavation in the Iraqi desert uncovered over 850 Stone Age artifacts up to 1.5 million years old, shedding new light on human evolution in the Arabian Peninsula. An ...

The Niya ruins are located in Minfeng county in the Hotan prefecture, about 115 kilometers north of the modern-day Niya town.

Ancient-DNA analyses identify a Caucasus Lower Volga people as the ancient originators of Proto-Indo-European, the precursor ...

As the vibrant sounds of drums and gongs filled the air, a colorful troupe of performers holding an ancient auspicious animal, wound its way through ...