A new study finds ancient Chinese settlements grew centralized over 6,000 years, shrinking from nine clusters to just two ...

Videos featuring Feng Shi, in which the renowned archaeoastronomer and member of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences discusses topics such as ancient Chinese cosmology and the origins of Chinese ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ancient China began as a group of isolated communities during the Stone Age and eventually grew into a formidable empire. Ancient ...

Ancient China began as a group of isolated communities during the Stone Age and eventually grew into a formidable empire. Ancient Chinese people developed their own writing system and several famous ...

At the announcement in Beijing, Huo Wei, a professor from Sichuan University, said that in the past decade, archaeological ...

Visitors view astronomical instruments and cultural relics during the Heavenly Questions: The Cosmological Vision of Chinese Civilization exhibition at the Anhui Museum in Hefei, ...

CHINOR, UZBEKISTAN—China’s leader, Xi Jinping, says he is striving to make sure Chinese civilization wields global influence far into the future. One little-noticed part of that vision: an effort to ...

Warmer waters in the Pacific Ocean may have brought devastating floods to the cradle of ancient Chinese civilization, according to a recent study in which its authors link three wildly different lines ...

Roman, Egyptian, and Chinese civilizations had many different ingenious inventions. Chocolate was a big aphrodisiac for Mesoamerican civilizations and used for energy. The first earthquake detector is ...

Stretching across two-thirds of our planet, Asia harbors secrets that span millions of years of human history. From the frozen burial grounds of Siberia to the ancient cities of the Indus Valley, ...

A new study involving researchers from Oxford's Department of Earth Sciences has finally solved the mystery of what caused the collapse of an Ancient Chinese civilization—finding that widespread ...