New study indicates Neolithic cultures in China may have separated graves of perinatal infants; different treatment than older children.

Stretching across two-thirds of our planet, Asia harbors secrets that span millions of years of human history. From the ...

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 ...

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 ...

High on the sheer limestone cliffs in southwest China, ancient wooden coffins remain wedged into rock faces hundreds of feet above the ground. Long treated as archaeological curiosities, these ...

History becomes legend. Legend becomes myth. At best, historians hope that at least a kernel of truth lingers lost among centuries’ worth of embellishment, propaganda, and hype. But the gap between ...

According to Kang Peng at the Institute of Ancient History, the version of the text that existed was "messy and incomplete" as it was compiled by Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) officials who reconstructed ...

The discovery could solve a tragic mystery from the Qin Dynasty.

This millennium-old heritage city is undergoing a striking transformation. What was once defined by hushed courtyards and stone-paved alleys is now animated by rallies and volleys as pickleball ...

In Zaozhuang City of east China's Shandong Province, Taierzhuang Ancient Town, a reputed scenic attraction, always becko ...