When workers in northern China cut into a hillside for a new road, they did not expect to open a window onto a world where a ...

More than 6,000 miles from his native Tajikistan, where he faced censorship and the threat of imprisonment, linguist and historian Barakatullo Ashurov has completed what he regards as a very ...

Human history is peppered with lost civilizations, each shrouded in mystery and intrigue. These ancient societies left behind enigmatic artifacts and structures that continue to baffle modern ...

The 42-year-old molecular archaeologist used to study bioscience. In 2014, when he was a doctoral candidate at Fudan's School of Life Sciences, he joined a program overseen by historian Han Sheng and ...