Asia Archive
Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Studying dirt layers from the Tam Pà Ling cave in Laos has given Flinders University archaeologists new insights into some of the earliest
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - In China, archaeologists have discovered several mummies naturally preserved by desert sand. However, the white mass found on their heads remained a mystery
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Featured Stories
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The story of Hua Mulan, a brave young female warrior, is related to the Three Kingdoms Period (220–280), a chaotic and difficult time
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A remarkable archaeological discovery has been made in Kazakhstan. During a routine inspection as part of the preventive Orman campaign in the Sandyktau district,
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Storytelling has been with humanity as long for as anyone can remember. Before the development of written language and paper, our ancestors utilized
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists excavating near Lake Xiada Co in western Tibet have discovered six unusual stone artifacts. These objects measure approximately half the length of
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Between the 4th century BC and the 3rd century AD, a kingdom known as the Kangju Kingdom existed in Central Asia. This kingdom
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The discovery of two ancient skeletons exhibiting remarkably similar injuries is an intriguing archaeological find. These unrelated individuals, who lived over 2,000 years ago,
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists thought there was nothing left to find at the Bayon Temple in Angor Archaeological Park in Siem Reap, but they were wrong.
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Artifacts
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Researchers of China's Tsinghua University have published the results of new research focused on five sets of bamboo slips, in which the rites
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have used radiocarbon dating to analyze the oldest true wooden frame saddle in East Asia, revealing how advances likely aided the rise
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Fossils
Eddie Gonzales Jr. - AncientPages.com - Ten newly discovered species of trilobites, hidden for 490 million years in a little-studied part of Thailand, could be the missing pieces
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Scientists report discovering the oldest human fossil ever unearthed in Vietnam. The skeletal remains that date back 10,000 years were found during an
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Silla was one of the three kingdoms of Korea and the most successful one. In the 7th century, Silla conquered the other kingdoms:
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A system of ancient ceramic water pipes, the oldest ever unearthed in China, shows that neolithic people were capable of complex engineering feats
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Evolution
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com -Excavations in Hualongdong (HLD), East China, have revealed abundant hominin fossils dating back 300,000 years. The fossils from a late Middle Pleistocene were excavated
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - For the first time, researchers have developed a model to estimate how much energy the original colonizers of New Zealand expended to maintain
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Evolution
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - What connects a fossil found in a cave in northern Laos with stone tools made in north Australia? The answer is, we do.
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The saying "there is nothing new under the Sun" seems appropriate when we learn that sanitary hardware was invented long ago. Scientists have
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Researchers have recovered and studied archaeological evidence of an ancient stringed musical instrument crafted from deer antler in southern Vietnam. Lead researcher and
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - An interdisciplinary team of scientists at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU, Singapore) has found that rapid sea-level rise drove early settlers in Southeast
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Researchers have analyzed stone tools from southern China. Their study provides the earliest evidence of rice harvesting, dating to as early as 10,000 years
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Archaeology
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – An exceptionally well-preserved collection of fossils discovered in eastern Yunnan Province, China, has enabled scientists to solve a centuries-old riddle in the
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The interior of Central Asia has been identified as a key route for some of the earliest hominin migrations across Asia, according to
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The best way to prove some mythical stories were based on real events is through archaeology. On several occasions, myths and legends have
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists and paleontologists have recently unearthed an intriguing 1-million-year-old human skull fossil that gives scientists a remarkable opportunity to get more insight into
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Featured Stories
AncientPages.com - A woman in Suzhou, China, was reportedly detained recently for “provoking trouble.” Her alleged crime was being spotted outside wearing a kimono. The woman was dressed
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Archaeology
Conny Waters- AncientPages.com - Strange mythical beasts appear in tales worldwide. In most cases, their description fits a specific category, and it's possible to define the nature of
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - If three ancient bodies buried in Indonesia could talk, researchers from the Australian National University (ANU) say they would tell stories of the
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A group of scientists has successfully sequenced and studied the whole genome of eight 1,700-year-old individuals dated to the Three Kingdoms period of
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News
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The discovery of a giant sinkhole in China and a huge, ancient unexplored world beyond our feet is extraordinary in many ways. The
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The Bamboo Annals or Zhushu Jinian in Mandarin are a valuable source for the history and chronology of ancient China spanning ca. 2400
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The emergence and spread of agriculture in the Neolithic had a revolutionary impact on the development of human society, and it provided a
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Fossils
Eddie Gonzales Jr. - AncientPages.com - A new species of one of the most recognizable types of dinosaur is the oldest stegosaur ever found in Asia, and one
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Traditional assumptions have often seen tropical rainforests as a barrier to early Homo sapiens. However, growing proof shows that humans adapted to and lived
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - It's incredible how something so huge could go unnoticed for so long, but one can only be thankful these stunning drawings have finally
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Featured Stories
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - There is a truly puzzling ancient carving in Sri Lanka covered with strange symbols, lines, and other geometric figures. The ancient chart-like carving
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Our knowledge of Cambodia's Greater Angkor region has increased thanks to new LIDAR images. It has long been known this region was once
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Scientists have tried for years to solve the mystery of Laos megalithic jars. Are they now closer to unraveling the truth behind these
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - Ancient Pages.com - Archaeologists have found an ancient stone vessel that reveals the location of a long-lost tomb of a Chinese Emperor in the Eastern
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Carved from a rock cliff face, the Kailasa Temple is named in honor of the sacred mountain-dwelling place of the god Shiva. It is considered
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Artifacts
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Three antique idols depicting of Lord Ram, Lakshman and Sita have been returned by Britain to Indian authorities. The three bronze statues were
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