Long before modern observatories and spacecraft, court scribes in ancient China were quietly building one of humanity’s first ...

The chance rediscovery of the ancient Chinese Sanxingdui civilization is legendary in and of itself. In 1929, an unsuspecting peasant in Sichuan province stumbled upon a cache of jade relics while ...

High on the sheer rock faces of southern China, wooden coffins cling to the cliffs, turning entire valleys into vertical ...

The apparent contradiction begins immediately, with the book’s title: “Healing with Poisons.” But in this sweeping examination of poison’s role in medieval Chinese medicine, Yan Liu, assistant ...

Ultimately, these 573 fortresses redefine what we know about northern China’s prehistory. Long before the first emperors ...

"Some of our ancestors were very skilled observers." A team of international researchers say they've uncovered new data on ...

The modern house cat reached China in the 8th century. Before that, another cat — the leopard cat — hunted the rodents in ancient Chinese settlements.

A newly discovered medieval Chinese coin, the second ever found in England, points to the possible existence of a vast medieval trade route spanning much of the Eastern hemisphere. Discovered via a ...

Aim for who/what/when/where/why/how type facts formatted like so: Ancient China began as a group of isolated communities during the Stone Age and eventually grew into ...

A 14-year-old boy from central China has turned his bedroom into a small museum dedicated to ancient Chinese history and ...

A new study revisits ancient Chinese records to explore whether a comet could explain the Star of Bethlehem described in ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. – The apparent contradiction begins immediately, with the book’s title: “Healing with Poisons.” But in this sweeping examination of poison’s role in medieval Chinese medicine, Yan Liu, ...