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

Photo taken on Dec 22, 2021 shows the stone statues of the Song Dynasty (960-1279) in Anyue county, Southwest China's Sichuan province. [Photo/Xinhua] CHENGDU -- The meeting between 100,000 millennium ...

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 ...

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

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 new digital archive is making thousands of mysterious ancient Chinese emblematic symbols accessible to anyone with an internet connection. Yuwei Zhou, a PhD candidate in the Department of East Asian ...

It seems that domestic cats were not the first felines to live with humans, a study undertaken in China has revealed. In fact, the cats we are most familiar with they only arrived in the region via ...

While modern people marvel at wild animals in zoos, their ancestors in the Shang Dynasty (c. 16th century-11th century BC) may have done something similar.

Lotus shoes are tiny footwear associated with foot-binding, a beauty practice that lasted for at least a millennium in China. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Archaeologists recently unearthed the remains of ancient Roman marching camps in Saxony-Anhalt — a first for one of Eastern Germany’s larger states. The discovery was announced by the State Office for ...