Scientists have uncovered evidence that the vanished Tethys Ocean may have sculpted Central Asia’s mountainous landscape during the dinosaur era. Using decades of geological data, researchers found ...

This video maps the First Persian Empire — the Achaemenid Empire (c. 550–330 BC). We trace how Cyrus the Great united Persia ...

Routes pictured are based on maps from the map collection at Cornell University Library (with special thanks to Nij ...

Asian Americans are the fastest-growing demographic group in the U.S., but across American history, their stories and the ...

On May 13, 1985, a Philadelphia police helicopter bombed the fortified house of a radical organization, MOVE, to end a ...

Credit: Screenshot of the Oxus Society Central Asia Resource Tracker The Oxus Society for Central Asian Affairs recently released the Central Asia Resource Tracker, a public dataset that maps reserves ...

Today on CNN10: We'll get an update on a massive weather system bringing severe storms to much of the Central U.S. this week. Then, we'll see how the WNBA Draft made history following a landmark labor ...

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A new analysis dates three Homo erectus skulls from central China to about 1.77 million years ago, making them the oldest securely dated hominin fossils in eastern Asia. That older age shifts the ...

The Bay Area played an essential role in developing the American West, so it’s no surprise that there’s an abundance of terrific history museums in the San Francisco Bay Area. SF history museums tell ...

HONG KONG — The fallout from the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran and the effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz is being felt sharply in Asia, with authorities from New Delhi to Manila implementing ...

Human history is brief when measured against the age of the Earth. At UC Santa Barbara’s Art, Design & Architecture Museum, Tiffany Chung’s mid-career survey exhibition considers human history ...