A team of international researchers say they've uncovered new data on the world's first recorded solar eclipse using a ...

The chance rediscovery of the ancient Chinese Sanxingdui civilization is legendary in and of itself. In 1929, an unsuspecting ...

A team of international researchers has uncovered fresh data on the world's earliest recorded solar eclipse using ancient ...

Ancient DNA is rewriting the origin story of the cat curled on the sofa. Long before the familiar house cat padded into ...

Researchers studying an ancient tomb in China have found direct evidence that cannabis was a staple food crop during the Tang dynasty more than 1,000 years ago. Previous research into the ...

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

This influential ancient monster from Chinese mythology predates the written word. This influential ancient monster from Chinese mythology predates the written word. Inspired by ancient bronze and ...

A rare 3,000-year-old gold mask has been uncovered, offering archeologists a glimpse into ancient Chinese culture. The mask was discovered by archeologists in ancient royal tombs in the province of ...

What Jesus’ death means for how I make sense of my culture’s traditional religious practices. If you ever visit the Temple of Heaven in Beijing—ancient China’s largest center for high-level ...

While two of the tombs were robbed, one was left untouched, and it contained a box full of glazed pottery, among other goods. Chinese Academy of Social Science’s Institute of Archaeology ...