Whether through agricultural practices, deforestation, or urbanization, how modern humans use land has had an unprecedented ...

South Asia was once the eastern part of the Ancient Greek world, a pivotal yet little explored part of the Greek empire and ...

A research team led by Professor Jennifer Bates from Seoul National University (SNU) conducted a large-scale synthesis of ...

Modern-day populations in India descend from a mixture of peoples living thousands of years ago in South and Central Asia, including the Bronze-Age ... an international team of researchers analyzed ...

For decades, the leading theory for the ubiquity of Indo–European languages was that early farmers, living in a region known ...

How did this ancient South Asian tradition seep into the American culture? Yoga’s ancient roots are found in the ancient Hindu text, the Rig Veda, said to be more than 3,000 years old.

The ancient Egyptians employed a host of exotic ingredients – some apparently imported from as far away as Southeast Asia – to mummify their dead, as revealed by a new analysis of containers ...

And now it carries a handsome cash prize: US$1 million (S$1.36 million) for anyone who can decipher the script of the ancient Indus Valley civilisation. Relatively little is known about the ...