For decades, the grand narratives of Mesopotamia, Egypt, and the Indus Valley dominated the story of early human civilization ...

Finally, in 2008 — 27 years after its discovery — the Butuan gold went on display at the Ayala Museum, protected by an elite security force. And this year, Asia Society was able to bring the gold ...

Humankind's tangled shrub of ancestry now has a new branch: Researchers in the Philippines announced today that they have discovered a species of ancient ... “This new discovery made me thrilled ...

This discovery provides substantial evidence ... This evidence, they suggest, shows that the ancient peoples of the Philippines and Southeast Asia were not merely drifting but were actively ...

About 709,000 years ago, a group of ancient ... Luzon in the Philippines. The find means our hominin cousins reached the Philippines much earlier than we previously knew. The discovery may also ...

In the Middle East, historical feuds, both real and reimagined, have unleashed atavistic conflicts, which threaten to tear the fabric of the world’s most ancient societies apart. In the Philippines ..