The Roman general Crassus invaded Parthian imperial territory in southern Turkey in 53 BC. The Parthian army annihilated Crassus’ forces near the city of Carrhae. Around 20,000 Roman soldiers died ...

Oracle bones inscribed with the earliest known Chinese characters that are unearthed from the Yinxu Ruins of Anyang and housed at the Chinese Archaeological Museum in Beijing. [Photo by Fang ...

US broadcaster Stephen Colbert has big plans to keep himself busy when his talk show goes off the air in May. In the early hours of Wednesday morning, it was announced that Colbert will be co-writing ...

Sarah Michelle Gellar has encouraged Buffy The Vampire Slayer fans to stay well away from any leaks that come out of the cancelled reboot. Oscar-winning director Chloé Zhao had been behind the planned ...

Scholars used China’s “oracle bones” to help decipher the collapse of the Shang dynasty. Combined with paleoclimate reconstructions, the team found an intense increase in typhoon activity helped shift ...

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One of the world’s oldest surviving collections of writing, scratched into ‘oracle bones’ by Shang dynasty chroniclers more than three millennia ago, is finally giving up its secrets. Using a powerful ...

March 7, 2026: Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the weekend. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

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Some civilizations in inland China underwent dramatic changes and population drops 3,000 years ago. Now, researchers are using oracle bones, archaeological evidence and climate modeling to find out ...