Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ancient China began as a group of isolated communities during the Stone Age and eventually grew into a formidable empire. Ancient ...

A clay cylinder some say was the first bill of human rights. And a Chinese star map drawn long before telescopes existed. Finds like these don’t just add to history, they rewrite it. But before we ...

Ahead of International Museum Day on May 18, an American reporter and a Russian blogger go on a fun relic scavenger hunt at ...

DNA from an ancient fossil reveals that Asians and Native Americans share a common ancestor, which lends further evidence to the theory that people from Asia were the first humans to set foot in the ...

Imagine if suddenly all documents written in Spanish, English, or French disappeared, and the only things left from our era ...