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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Researchers uncovered evidence that ancient humans survived on the Tibetan Plateau during the coldest period of the past 2.5 million years, demonstrating their resilience and adaptability. In 2019, ...

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 ...