VIENTIANE: Set among ancient stones and quiet hills, the annual Vat Phou Festival in southern Laos' Champasak province offers ...

A new initiative is aimed at raising awareness about a dark and often forgotten chapter of U.S. history: the secret bombing of Laos during the Vietnam War. Nearly half a century later, most Americans ...

MINNEAPOLIS — A University of Minnesota researcher helped discover an ancient tooth in a Laotian cave estimated to be between 164,000 and 131,000 years old, adding a new piece of evidence to one of ...

The discovery of an ancient molar — a tooth that likely belonged to young girl who lived up to 164,000 years ago in a cave in what is now Laos — is new evidence that the mysterious human lineage ...

Sometimes the smallest discoveries can lead to the biggest revelations. For a team of scientists exploring a mountain range in Laos, one of these seemingly tiny clues turned into a big scientific find ...

Archaeologists study ancient treasure discovered in Laos, finding more gold and human remains from the era before the great city of Angkor was built.

Whether you board a bus in Vientiane, the modern-day capital of Laos, or its ancient capital of Luang Prabang, it will take at least six hours to reach the Plain of Jars. Located just outside of ...

Billy Cotsis tries to find the "Greek" meaning of Laos on a recent visit there, with the help of local Jasmine ...

A molar found in a cave in Laos may belong to a member of the Denisovans, a group of ancient humans first identified in 2010. If confirmed, it would be the first fossil evidence of the Denisovans in ...

The tooth of a young girl found in a cave in Laos has been revealed to belong to a group of prehistoric human relatives known as Denisovans, and the discovery is helping researchers better understand ...

CHAMPASAK, Laos -- Stepping down a jungled hillside, the romantic temple languished in rural isolation for centuries, while around it, beneath the rice fields, slumbered one of the oldest cities in ...