Ball games were probably the most popular sporting activity in the ancient world and could be played in many different ways.

Researchers have determined that a mysterious jawbone discovered on the seafloor off the coast of Taiwan was Denisovan, ...

The Yangtze porpoise (Neophocaena asiaeorientalis) used to be a common sighting in the Yangtze River. Boaters would watch ...

More than 160 works exploring the emergence of Buddhist and Hindu artistic traditions from the second century B.C. through the eighth century A.D.

New scans of two fossils cared for by the Natural History Museum are already breaking new ground. A team of scientists led by ...

Guwahati: Two kilometres from Chota Wapu village on Haflong- Lanka Road lies the Bokarma Hading site, which has been found to ...

India’s history is a tapestry woven with the rise and fall of magnificent cities, some of which have faded from modern maps ...

There are very few remains of ancient ships, except in one unusual place: the Black Sea has a unique environment that ...

Iran’s Zagros folds are visible via satellite imagery Formed by Arabian-Eurasian plate collision Offers insight into mountain-building processes ...

These are crocodile tears of joy. In the Sundarbans, a dense mangrove forest in Asia, trail cameras were set up to help researchers track tiger populations — but they found something else instead.

created an uplift in land that contributed to closing the ancient Tethys Sea, splitting it into what is now the Mediterranean and Arabian Seas, and created a landmass that bridged Asia and Africa ...

Yungang's caverns have carvings of Central Asian merchants leading camel trains laden with silk, and Angkor Wat's stone walls depict Chinese traders with Khmer counterparts weighing fishery products — ...