Studying ancient history means encountering some unsettling traditions. For me, that included learning about “sunjang,” a ...

A recent archaeological excavation in northwest China has uncovered a 3,000-year-old burial site containing deliberately broken bronze weapons, offering a remarkable glimpse into ancient attitudes ...

There are books about near-death experiences. There are books by people who had them. But there has never been a book like ...

A groundbreaking genetic investigation has uncovered evidence that whole families were put to death as offerings to local rulers in the ancient Silla kingdom, located in present-day South Korea, ...

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Kevin McSpadden is a former SCMP staff writer. He is currently a freelance journalist who likes to write about archaeological ...

Deep in the hills of central Israel, a new discovery is rewriting the history of human cooperation. For decades, scientists have debated the nature of the relationship between Neanderthals and early ...