A submerged river valley under the Madura Strait was found packed with Homo erectus fossils and other bones submerged since ...

Think of Java, and chances are that the megacity of Jakarta – the capital of Indonesia – will spring to mind. But for those interested in the island's traditional culture, a smaller city ...

Two hundred years ago, British statesman Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles rediscovered the sprawling temple of Borobudur on a remote hilltop in Java, Indonesia, hidden under a tangle of thick jungle ...

The sleepy village of Licin is situated in the Banyuwangi regency of East Java, Indonesia. It’s a 30-minute drive from the town of Banyuwangi – Java’s easternmost tip – and an hour from the slopes of ...

It reached Java more than 1.5 million years ago and the new dates suggest it died out at least 35,000 years before the arrival there of our own species, Homo sapiens.

Scientists Found Evidence of Our Ancient Human Ancestors Underwater, Suggesting a Sunken World Some of the early hominins evidently went island hopping. By Elizabeth Rayne Published: May 22, 2025 ...

Siam Society is holding a study trip to Central Java to explore two of Indonesia's most extraordinary Unesco World Heritage Sites -- Borobudur and Prambanan -- from June 1-5.

Homo erectus reached Java later than we thought Ancient humans took hundreds of thousands of years to make the journey from mainland Eurasia to Indonesia, according to a new dating study, perhaps ...