Longmen Grottoes and the Erlitou archaeological site represent critical milestones in ancient Chinese history and state ...

Located along the Xiang River, Changsha was a vital administrative hub during the Han Dynasty and earlier Chu State.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ancient China began as a group of isolated communities during the Stone Age and eventually grew into a formidable empire. Ancient ...

Chinese archaeologists have made an extraordinary discovery in Shaanxi Province, unearthing two ancient game boards from the ...

Videos featuring Feng Shi, in which the renowned archaeoastronomer and member of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences discusses topics such as ancient Chinese cosmology and the origins of Chinese ...

Ancient DNA from China’s vast 4,000-year-old Shimao settlement is revealing how one of East Asia’s earliest complex societies was organized. Researchers found that its people were largely descended ...

The 1,400-year-old Grand Canal is a monumental project that bound north and south China together. It’s still in use today.

Did you know ancient Chinese rare books regularly get a gentle "sunbath" so they may be better preserved? As the summer heat ...

The silkworm moth, whose caterpillars have been used in silk production since antiquity, may have been brought to southern Central Asia 4,000 years ago—nearly 2,000 years earlier than previously ...

This early introduction to ancient history helps students learn about people, places and environments, as they explore how ...

Yang Hexiang, director of the Yunnan Provincial Library, introduces the digital ancient books the institute released on Dec ...