It had been thought that rice was domesticated in both India and China, but a new genetic study by Michael Purugganan of New York University suggests that all of the world’s domesticated rice originated in China some 9,000 years ago. “As rice was brought in from China to India by traders and migrant farmers, it […]

Four bronze statuettes have been recovered by Egypt’s tourism and antiquities police. Two of the statues were stolen from the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. The other two will be identified and returned to the proper museums or archaeological sites.  Researchers have found a 12,000-year-old site in southern Jordan which consists of three large buildings and […]