Sanxingdui has produced a wealth of startling Bronze Age artefacts. Many of these treasures were deliberately smashed or burnt before being buried,…
Archaeologists discover rock painting dating back 3,000 years…
A collection of lost or unknown Egyptian artefacts found in the Beijing museum…
After 30 long years in negotiation with the authorities, the photographer Reza was finally granted permission to visit and photograph inside a…
Cultivated rice dating back 10,000 years discovered in China…
Wine dating from 7,000 BC discovered in China…
Silk is one of the more complex luxuries. It is not just a matter of cultivating silk worms – it is also…
Peking Man was one of the first 'men' to break out of Africa. He was discovered in the 1920s, but is only…
In 1921, the Swedish geologist Gunnar Andersson and his palaeontological assistant Otto Zdansky, an Austrian, discovered some intriguing fossil bones in a…