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Archaeologists in central China continue to unearth insightful new findings from the tomb of Prince Jin Duan, a foundational member of the Ming Dynasty royal line.

Scientists have used DNA analysis to determine that pottery development in China was linked to strong regional differences in how they cooked millet, an ancient staple grain.

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Archaeologists found a 2,500-year-old lost civilisation of farmers, challenging notions that there were only hunter-gatherers in the region at the time.

From McDonald’s coming under fire from Malaysian social media users to Oscar winner Michelle Yeoh’s new family role, here are a few highlights from SCMP’s recent reporting.

Archaeologists discovered evidence of a very early Austronesian society on an island off the coast of China, expanding original ideas about where they lived.

Other treasured archaeological sites such as churches and hammam baths have also been hit, Hamas says, urging Unesco to protect the historic buildings.

Rishi Sunak triggered a diplomatic spat with Greece over the repatriation of the Parthenon Marbles by cancelling at the last minute a one-on-one in London.

The Scythian artefacts – some around 2,000 years old – were on loan to an Amsterdam museum when they ended up at the centre of a geopolitical crisis after Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea.

A mass grave uncovered in China has been found to contain 43 victims of headhunting massacres, with 32 of them, all women and children, killed in a single event.

Chinese politics expert goes viral by claiming ancient Greek’s legacy not supported by written record. While most scholars disagree, the comments reflect a trend among nationalist intellectuals calling for a less Western-centric version of history.

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Palestinian workers found dozens of ancient graves, including two sarcophagi made of lead, in a Roman-era cemetery near Jabaliya, in the northern Gaza Strip. The site dates back some 2,000 years.

Feature will be part of exhibition at Hong Kong Palace Museum from September 27 to January 8, 2024, showcasing 120 ancient items mostly from mysterious kingdom.

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Nine people arrested in Gansu over illegal dig and 400kg of fossils confiscated after group allegedly targeted area lacking communication and easy access, say local authorities.

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The Peruvian and Japanese archaeologists have found a Wari-era ancestor worship site north of Lima containing burial chambers, human remains and ceramic offerings.

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‘The find is extremely important because he is one of the first priests to begin to control the temples in the country’s northern Andes,’ said Japanese archaeologist Yuji Seki.

The room found at the Civita Giuliana villa underlines the ‘conditions of precarity and poor hygiene’ in which people of lower status lived at the time, Italy’s culture ministry said.