Whole skeleton of a ~8,400-year-old individual from Qihe cave, Fujian, China. This individual’s southern ancestry can be found along the coast of mainland southern China and islands in the Taiwan ...

Horses are herded along a highway linking the Alay Valley – a major part of the ancient Silk Road – with the city of Osh at the eastern edge of the Fergana valley. Credit: William Taylor Along a ...

A clay cylinder some say was the first bill of human rights. And a Chinese star map drawn long before telescopes existed. Finds like these don’t just add to history, they rewrite it. But before we ...

People who moved out of southern China cultivated big changes across ancient Southeast Asia, a new analysis of ancient human DNA finds. Chinese rice and millet farmers spread south into a region ...