Archaeological workers examine the site of a Qin Dynasty (221-206 BC) rock carving near a lake in Madoi county, Qinghai province, at an altitude of about 4,300 meters on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.

Hunter-gatherers in parts of ancient Asia prepared their dead for burial with smoke-drying up to 14,000 years ago, resulting ...

In a remarkable archaeological breakthrough, researchers have unearthed a 16-ton treasure-laden tomb within the Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor in Xi’an, China. This discovery, remarkably ...

The First World History Frontiers Forum convened in Beijing, gathering around 280 scholars worldwide to advocate for a more ...

But unlike Egypt or Chile, where extensive mummies have been uncovered, that have dry environments where the drying out can occur naturally, southeast Asia is humid, hot and wet, according to the ...

The world's oldest evidence for purposeful human mummification comes from Southeast Asia, where people smoke-dried their ancestors' corpses 10,000 years ago.

For at least 10,000 years, humans across South-East Asia were being carefully preserved after death by being smoke-dried – a ...

Experts have discovered skeletal remains dating back 12,000 years to southern China , where the deceased were smoke-dried prior to burial.

For the analysis, the administration organized expert panels involving archaeologists, historians, cultural relic ...

The activities of the Chinese people in the South China Sea date back over 2,000 years. China is the first to have discovered ...

More than 30 experts in cultural heritage conservation from China and France convened at Jinci Temple in Taiyuan, ...