This map depicts the geographical span of the Indus Valley Civilization (IVC), showing ... where a minority of buried individuals yielded ancient DNA matched that of the Rakhigarhi individuals.

The Imago Mundi, the oldest known world map ... mirrored how many ancient cultures perceived their own cities—whether Athens, ...

Photo taken on June 8, 2022 shows a staff member displaying gene specimens of ceramics from the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) at ...

Archaeologists now think they may have been the citizens of an ancient civilization that existed at the crossroads between China and Europe. Mummies of "Tomb 2" This mummy of a young woman was ...

Armed with electron microscopes, Raman spectrometers and an array of precision instruments, researchers are collecting data from each ceramic fragment to methodically build what they call a "genetic ...