Possible language family homelands and routes of early rice transfer. Starting from the third millennium BCE, rice farming-based agriculture spread from southern East Asia into Mainland and Insular ...

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Easy-to-transport foods, like noodles and dumplings, were necessities along the trade route The post Stir Fried: How the Silk ...

The Babylonian Map of the World, originating from ancient Iraq around the sixth century B.C., is the oldest known map. Depicting a circular world with Babylon at its center and surrounded by water ...

History of ancient Egypt (see Egypt under Ancient Africa, above) Macedonian Empire Mesopotamia Sumer Akkadian Empire Babylonia Assyria Parthian Empire (Second Persian Empire) Sasanian Empire (Third ...

To the ancient Greeks, southern Italy was part of their territory. It was called Magna Graecia, meaning "Great Greece".

It was a new species of hominin, now known as Denisovans, who were the first human cousins identified only by their DNA.

In a new animation, scientists map the planet's plate tectonics over the last 40 percent of its history. It's the longest ...

This mosaic-like approach to pluralism is quite unnatural because human culture is inherently fluid and shaped by continuous ...

A Canadian man researching an upcoming camping trip via Google Maps has uncovered what experts believe to be a gigantic crater — left by an ancient space rock. Joël Lapointe, of Quebec ...

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