An unrelated species of small cat lived in human settlements thousands of years before domestic cats, say scientists.

Domestic cats originated in North Africa and spread to Europe in the past 2000 years, according to DNA evidence, while in ...

From the Minoan royal road to the Ridgeway, ancient roads still exist today showing how past civilizations built networks ...

A Chinese research team has discovered that the earliest social structure in East Asia was a family-centered social ...

Long ago, a substantial ancient Greek population from the island of Crete lived in the ancient city of Daedala, located in ...

It is believed that the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, has ordered his forces to be ready to seize the island by 2027 and is now warning Tokyo would 'bear all consequences' if it dares to get in the ...

The research published on Thursday in Nature presents the first direct genetic evidence regarding the origins of the Shimao population -- the builders of Shimao, a massive Neolithic walled settlement ...

Dubbed "the Confucius" of the eastern region of the lower reaches of the Yangtze River in a Song Dynasty (960-1279) poem, Gu ...

The Olympic flame began its journey Wednesday to the Milan Cortina Winter Games — missing a little of its usual magic. Bad weather lashing western Greece forced organizers to move the torch-lighting ...

A new study has uncovered a direct genetic link between ancient practitioners of the Hanging Coffin burial tradition and the modern Bo people in Southwest China. The findings published in Nature ...

Indonesia’s remarkable cultural diversity, spanning thousands of islands, hundreds of ethnic groups and countless living traditions, has long made the archipelago one of the world’s great meeting ...

A terracotta figurine in the form of a pig was made in Egypt around 3000 b.c., during the Early Dynastic period. Pork accounts for more than a third of the world’s meat, making pigs among the planet’s ...