From serene islands to lush, tropical forests, these are the best resorts in Asia and Southeast Asia in our annual “World’s ...

Hinduism, born in ancient South Asian culture, does not condemn LGBTQ+ individuals. Some scholars argue Shikhandi, in the Mahabharata, is a transgender warrior.

The South Asian Summer Monsoon (SASM) is the world's most significant monsoon system, providing approximately 80% of the region's annual rainfall—influencing agriculture, water security, and the ...

Researchers from the Francis Crick Institute and Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) have extracted and sequenced the ...

Newly sequenced ancient genomes from Yunnan, China, have shed new light on human prehistory in East Asia. In a study published in Science, a research team led by Prof. Fu Qiaomei at the Institute ...

Humans first arrived in South America through a series of extraordinary migrations – and genetic studies now reveal more about how they settled and then split into four distinct groups on the ...

“Mythical, Divine, Demonic” at the Philadelphia Museum of Art explores the role of animals in South Asian art.

For 150 years, people have tried to decipher mysterious symbols written by an advanced civilization believed to rival ancient Egypt. Can a $1 million prize help crack the puzzle?

Newly sequenced ancient genomes from Yunnan, China, have shed new light on human prehistory in East Asia.

The second was posed in the eighteenth century, when scholars noticed similarities between classical Greek and Latin and Sanskrit, an ancient language from South Asia, and suggested a common origin.