Archaeologists uncover relics from the Zhou Dynasty in China, revealing burial customs and daily life from 3,000 years ago.

While being plump had a place in China's history, extreme diets, constricting clothes formed part of nation's centuries-old ...

Stretching across two-thirds of our planet, Asia harbors secrets that span millions of years of human history. From the frozen burial grounds of Siberia to ...

Torosyan: "Across centuries and continents, the way people brought food from plate to mouth has reflected etiquette, hierarchy, religion, and even geopolitics." ...

Combining the writing on the bones with paleoclimate reconstructions, the team found how typhoon activity helped shift the ...

Each March, many of the country’s most selective colleges and universities release their admissions decisions, reviving debates over the roles of race, wealth and privilege – and putting Americans’ ...

Most of the way up the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain, which rises to a height of more than eighteen thousand feet, in southwestern China’s Yunnan Province, there is a large alpine field called Yunshanping ...

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with archaeologist Gary Feinman about new findings that show democracy existed throughout the ancient world and was not exclusive to Mediterranean Europe.