How did this ancient South Asian tradition seep into the American culture? Yoga’s ancient roots are found in the ancient Hindu text, the Rig Veda, said to be more than 3,000 years old.

South Asian student groups launched a monthlong celebration honoring the traditions and values that have been passed down ...

People who moved out of southern China cultivated big changes across ancient Southeast Asia, a new analysis of ancient human DNA finds. Chinese rice and millet farmers spread south into a region ...

Modern-day populations in India descend from a mixture of peoples living thousands of years ago in South and Central Asia, including the Bronze-Age ... an international team of researchers analyzed ...

The ancient peoples of the Philippines and of Island Southeast Asia (ISEA) may have built sophisticated boats and mastered seafaring tens of thousands of years ago—millennia before Magellan ...

The team carried out the first large-scale synthesis of archaeological evidence showing how humans used land in South Asia during the Holocene period, which spans from 12,000 to 6,000 years ago ...

The ancient Egyptians employed a host of exotic ingredients – some apparently imported from as far away as Southeast Asia – to mummify their dead, as revealed by a new analysis of containers ...

The statue, made from Mediterranean marble, provided proof of trade between ancient Rome and India. The sculpture depicted Siddhartha Gautama, who lived around 2,550 years ago in South Asia and ...

In recent years, Asian buyers have flocked to Hong Kong’s auction houses, with sales of diamonds, paintings, and ancient ceramics shattering world records. A 10-metre-long triptych entitled ...