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Tibet
On the Himalayan-enveloped Tibetan Plateau and the Altiplano plateau of South America - the world's two highest tabletops - a select few bird species survive on 35 to 40 percent less oxygen than …
Archaeologists in Tibet autonomous region believe the ninth century Purang stele to be the oldest in the region. The Purang stele discovered in Tibet [Credit: China News Service] Shargan Wangdue, of…
The oldest ice core ever drilled outside the polar regions may contain ice that formed during the Stone Age -- more than 600,000 years ago, long before modern humans appeared. Lonnie Thompson cuts an…
The Yeti or Abominable Snowman -- a mysterious, ape-like creature said to inhabit the high mountains of Asia -- looms large in the mythology of Nepal and Tibet. A femur bone from the decayed body of …
First domesticated 10,000 years ago in the Fertile Crescent of the Middle East, wheat and barley took vastly different routes to China, with barley switching from a winter to both a winter and summer…
