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.

Pieces of history: Unearthed from the Erlitou site, the turquoise dragon-form artefact was formed from more than 2,000 pieces of turquoise. — Xinhua On a crisp winter morning in early 2026, hundreds ...

Some civilizations in inland China underwent dramatic changes and population drops 3,000 years ago. Now, researchers are ...

An Egyptian-Chinese archaeological mission announced in Luxor on Saturday that they have uncovered an ancient "sacred lake" at the Montu Temple precinct in the Karnak Temple Complex in the city ...

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 ...

Including more than 500 Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) silver ingots, around 7,000 ancient artifacts, mostly made of gold and silver, were recently put on display at the Jiangkou ­Chenyin Museum in Pengshan ...

A stone discovered from one of the pits, the function of which is waiting to be unveiled. [Photo provided to China Daily] Spread across the north and south banks of the Huanhe River in the suburbs of ...

Led by China's National Cultural Heritage Administration and the Ministry of Natural Resources, new guidelines with a particular focus on the zoning of "underground relic burial areas" have recently ...

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.