Earliest Signs of Winemaking Found in China
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Neolithic people in China may have been the first in the world to make wine, according to scientists who have found the earliest evidence of winemaking from pottery shards dating from 7,000 BC in northern China.
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Archaeologist claim to have discovered a stone block inscribed with the earliest writing in the New World.
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Archaeologists digging in western Japan have excavated what they believe to be the oldest remains of a melon ever found, an official said Friday.
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Chinese astronomers mark the beginning of Supernova 1054, heralding the birth of what will become known as the Crab Nebula.
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Archaeologists say they have unearthed jewels dating back 5,000 years, possible proof of Europe's earliest civilisation.
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Archaeologists say they have discovered a stone block inscribed with the earliest writing in the New World.
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FOUR years ago, when Vino wine shop on Piedmont Avenue in Oakland began carrying wine made from the Sicilian grape Nero d'Avola, many customers had never heard of it.
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People in ancient China may have been enjoying the delights of wine as long as 9,000 years ago, making them the first in the world to enjoy a tipple.
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Archaeologists said Wednesday they had found evidence that humans lived in North America at least 50,000 years ago, far earlier than has been thought.
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The fossil of what may be one of the earliest baby birds has been found in northeast China.
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About 2 million years ago, in lowland tropical forests of what is now China, lived an ancestor of the giant panda that was very similar to the famed vegetarian bear except about half the size, scientists said.
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The fossils of six young dinosaurs found together in a ânurseryâ in northeast China show that these animals had started forming social groups much earlier than previously thought.
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An 800-year-old merchant ship was raised from the bottom of the South China Sea on Saturday, loaded with artefacts that might confirm the existence of an ancient maritime trade route linking China and the West.
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ATHENS, Greece -- A scientific dig has uncovered four pomegranates believed to be 2,500 years old preserved inside a woven basket nestled in a bronze vessel, a Greek archaeologist said Friday.
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FRIDAY, Nov. 16 (HealthDay News) -- Archaeologists say they've found one of the oldest traces ever of human chocolate consumption in pottery vessels more than 3,000 years old.
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US scientists working with images from the Hubble Space Telescope have identified what may turn out to be some of the earliest star-forming galaxies.
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An almost complete human skull fossil  that could date back 100,000 years has been unearthed in China,  state media said on Wednesday, hailing it as the greatest  discovery since Peking Man.