The transition to agriculture and a sedentary lifestyle is one of the great turning points in human history. Yet how this ...

Genetic analysis of skeletons buried in a Neolithic proto-city in Turkey reveals that female lineages were important in early agricultural societies.

A curated selection from The Professor’s Collection Part One, featuring rare artifacts from the Pacific Islands and ...

Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. More than a century after British colonial forces marched into the ...

Dressed in colourful costumes, some sporting feathered headgear and traditional swords, several thousand of Malaysia's ethnic ...

With “P’unchaw,” the photographer Victor Zea captures the light falling on Cuzco, Peru, where people have mixed Catholic and ...

Fifteen years after the discovery of a new type of human, the Denisovan, scientists discovered its DNA in a fossilized skull.

In the summer of 2021, a team of five Chinese researchers stirred up some controversy by suggesting that an unusual skull ...

While a billionaire family tears itself apart in Malaysian courts, the system that made their fortune grinds on—Borneo's ...

The works of Australian missionaries laid the foundation of today’s Borneo Evangelical Church, known in Malay as Sidang Injil ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Wednesday resurrected a hallmark policy of his first term, announcing that citizens of 12 countries would be banned from visiting the United States and ...