Chinese scientists have identified the Xujiayao hominins, whose fossils were unearthed in North China’s Hebei Province, as Denisovans, a distinct branch of ancient humans, through palaeoproteomic analyses and morphological comparisons, revealing shared phy...

More than 1,000 years ago, Tang Dynasty (618-907) Buddhist monk Xuanzang traveled through what is now the Chu River Basin in Central Asia. In The Great Tang Records on the Western Regions, he described a land where merchants from many countries gathered, gr...

Chinese scientists have found genetic evidence that early millet-farming populations in northern China originated locally rather than emerging from a major influx of migrant agricultural groups, according to research published in the journal Science Advance...

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