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

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

A new study has revealed that Africa may not have been the birthplace of humans. In fact the study proves that Eurasia had ancestors long before we thought.

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 ...

Throughout human history, our understanding of the past has been reset countless times based on what we think we know at the time. The same goes for other incredible archaeological discoveries that ...

Researchers say elongated alien-like skulls found in ancient graves were shaped in infancy and carried different meanings across cultures.

This is the tomb of Qin Shi Huang, China’s first emperor, who unified the nation in 221 BC and chased immortality until he died in 210 BC. As per BBC, it was discovered near Xi’an in 1974 by farmers ...

The John Alexander Pope papers contain limited biographical, personal and professional information. The bulk of the collection consists of published and unpublished writings, research materials and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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