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

China National Archives of Publications and Culture is developing an online platform to showcase Chinese classics, digitally presenting ancient texts in their original form. "It seeks to enrich ...

Technicians excavate the Nestorian church at the Tangchaodun site in Qitai county, Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, in 2022.

Food history is a fascinating topic that often leads to heated debate. There is such a visceral connection to the foods we grow up eating, the foods of our cultures, that to question their origins ...

Scientists studied centuries-old bird feathers from an ancient tomb on the coast, and then traced the origins back to the ...

A 2025 satellite photo shows a giant "Y" in the middle of the Taklamakan Desert, where a verdant river and a lengthy "red-white mountain" meet. The intersecting features are also home to an ...

Warmer waters in the Pacific Ocean may have brought devastating floods to the cradle of ancient Chinese civilization, ...

Evidence suggests that China's "cradle of civilization" experienced marked climate disasters and social upheavals during the mid-late Holocene (around 3,000 years ago). However, the direct causes and ...

Archaeologists working in central Italy have made a rare discovery that is helping researchers learn more about a ...