(MENAFN- Asia Times) Revisiting Ancient China's World Knowledge (a talk delivered at the Hong Kong Book Fair in July). By the late 16th century, before Europeans arrived in China via sea routes, how ...
A new DNA study of unprecedented size has unveiled ancient human movements that shaped the genetic makeup of present-day South Asians in complex ways. Those long-ago treks across vast grasslands and ...
A new study compiles data on more than 3,000 species to show how climate and geologic changes across Asia over the last 66 million years have shaped the evolution of the continent's mammals. A new ...