After a decade-long search, researchers have identified East Asia’s tallest known tree, the “Heaven Sword of the Da’an River, ...

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Taiwan, historically known as Formosa, holds a secret deep within its rugged interior: it is one of the rare locations on ...

A clip from the BBC series Race Across the World exploring map-reading skills whilst travelling across China, India and Nepal ...

Like the shiploads of sneakers or electronics stamped "Made in China" today, most of the items recovered from the dhow were ...

In October 1938, Italian archaeologist Amedeo Maiuri made a remarkable discovery during excavations at the ancient Roman city of Pompeii — a small, intricately carved ivory statuette of a female ...

Tartessos was a land of myths and riches. The advanced culture of the people thrived on the southern Iberian Peninsula near the Guadalquivir River, an area now known as Andalusia, Spain. The story of ...

Archaeologists thought ancient Amazonia was only home to wandering people, but new technology has uncovered complex societies ...

Many archaeologists believe the famed tower from the Book of Genesis may have had a real historical counterpart in ancient ...

Archaeological discoveries in Henan province, from ancient bone flutes to silk artifacts and dragon imagery, trace the roots ...

Last month, Google quietly killed off Google Sky Maps. But there’s still another way to virtually explore most of the solar system a la Google Maps: it’s called Google Maps in Space. Google Maps in ...