Baybayin, an ancient Filipino syllabary (written characters that represent syllables) is in the midst of a mini resurgence.

In online and in-person tutorials, younger Filipino-Canadians are learning Baybayin. The syllabary predates the colonization ...

The Alamat function not just as entertaining folklore, but as cultural compasses, guiding generations of Filipino children ...

“The ‘Filipino First’ policy is quickly becoming ‘Philippines last’”—and we have no one to blame but ourselves because we locked the restrictions into our own Constitution, says ...

“For the Classic Maya, in many ways, clothing defined personhood,” says Alyce de Carteret, a fellow in Art of the Ancient Americas at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. “Numerous aspects ...

With the 1633 painting Young Woman in Fantasy Costume by Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn, the Rijksmuseum delves further into what the subject’s clothing can tell us about her—and by extension, ...

The ancient peoples of the Philippines and of Island Southeast Asia (ISEA) may have built sophisticated boats and mastered seafaring tens of thousands of years ago—millennia before Magellan, Zheng He, ...

This ancient period of deep freeze, known as the Neoproterozoic Era, or “Snowball Earth,” lasted from about 1 billion to 543 million years ago. During that time, landmasses consolidated into a ...

New archaeological evidence suggests that ancient inhabitants of the Philippines and Island Southeast Asia had the advanced plant-working technology needed for sophisticated boat building and open-sea ...