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 ...

The Qingming Festival dates back to the Zhou Dynasty, with a history of more than 2,500 years. Since ancient times, the ...

Faeces from wealthy commanded higher price due to superior diet as door-to-door ‘night soil’ gatherers sold human waste to ...

Archaeological teams working along the north bank of the Huan River in Henan Province's Anyang City just made a discovery that completely reshapes what we know about ancient Chinese urban planning.

A close-up of a smiling Yangtze finless porpoise at the Baiji Dolphinarium of the Institute of Hydrobiology. (Wang Chaoqun/Chinese Academy of Sciences) (CN) — The ever-smiling Yangtze finless porpoise ...

Some of the most ancient fossils collected to date were traced back to the Ediacaran period. This is the time interval ranging from around 635 to 541 million years ago, shortly before the time when ...

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 ...

Sujit Wongthes, founder of Silpa Wattanatham magazine, argues in Matichon Weekly that ancient China had no people who called ...

LAS VEGAS (KTNV) — In honor of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, we explore an ancient Chinese practice that is helping local businesses find harmony. "Being in our culture, ...