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The academic journal Research on Hongshan Culture was officially launched on Sunday in Shenyang, Liaoning province, marking ...
By Karen Taylor Known in English as china, porcelain was first made in China and became representative of the country, after ...
Throughout Sardinia, these newly Unesco-inscribed stone necropolises tell the story of the island's pre-Roman funerary ...
Researchers from Durham University used the jaws of 71 people, dated from across the Neolithic period, to understand how people moved between communities in ancient Syria. By analysing the strontium ...
IN the spring of 2023, at an isolated archaeological site in the Nafud Desert of northern Saudi Arabia, a day labourer named ...
New research suggests that the earliest known Chinese characters have possibly been unearthed at the Liu­linxi Neolithic site ...
A University of Copenhagen team analysed thirty tar lumps from nine Alpine lake settlements, detecting male DNA on tool ...
A recent visit to Dorchester, UK doesn't- at first blush— reveal many commonalities between Dorchester, Mass. and its namesake. One is a bustling, modern neighborhood in a former British colony; the ...