A study of Pei Shu's tomb reveals her funeral faced multiple disruptions over 29 months due to burial disputes, geomancy, and legal conflicts, reflecting family inheritance struggles and social pressures in the late Tang Dynasty.
A study published in Nature reveals that some Indigenous South American populations carry genetic ancestry remarkably similar to Indigenous populations in Australia and Pacific Islands. Researchers concluded this ancestry did not come from the Americas' earliest settlers, pointing to an ancient "ghost population" that contributed genes to Amazonian groups. The findings challenge the decades-old theory that the Americas were populated through two major migration waves beginning roughly 15,000 years ago via the Bering Strait land bridge.
