Nearly 300 houses were destroyed or dismantled in a fire that destroyed the majority of Dukezong in Shangri-La county, China, on Saturday, January 11. The 1,300-year-old city is a popular tourist ...

Thousands of slate artifacts found on the Tibetan Plateau showcase the resiliency of early humans as they fanned out of ...

Now an arid region, this land attracted prehistoric people to the region thousands of years ago. The area is one of the cradles of our species and other ancient peoples. And a new discovery enables ...

Milk — whether from a cow, plant, or nut — is often said to do a body good, but would you believe it also may have helped build civilizations? That’s according to new findings published Wednesday in ...

China's assertion of historical sovereignty over Tibet is being challenged as a significant historical distortion. Scholars ...

SAN ANTONIO -- When the Dalai Lama and thousands of his spiritual followers fled Tibet after the Chinese occupation in the 1950s, they were not able to carry out many of their art treasures. During ...

The gentle rhythm of the Brahmaputra River (known in Tibet as the Yarlung Tsangpo, the longest and largest river in Tibet) ...

BEIJING (AP) — The government of Tibet’s capital city has begun a seven-month, 1.2 billion yuan ($196 million) project to help preserve Lhasa’s ancient heart. State-owned China Tibetan News, citing a ...

Roughly 3500 years ago, inhabitants of the Tibetan Plateau began exploiting dairy pastoralism as way to secure a mobile supply of food and adapt to the region’s cold, arid environment, according to an ...

The recent uncovering of ancient Tibetan relics has shed light on the sophisticated toolmaking techniques employed by early human civilizations. This discovery not only offers a glimpse into the ...

Below, Ann Tashi Slater shares five key insights from her new book, Traveling in Bardo: The Art of Living in an Impermanent World. Traveling in Bardo interweaves explorations of impermanence in our ...

A study of more than 100 genomes from people who lived in ancient China has unmasked a "ghost" in their midst. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...