Multiple cold seeps have been identified in the South China Sea and were first found in the northern region in 2004, ...
In 1996, archaeologists found the tomb of Emperor Wu-the 6th-century ruler who reigned over the Northern Zhou dynasty from ...
The find marks the longest urban thoroughfare ever discovered at Yinxu and is the longest known preserved road of ancient ...
The 2,000-year-old military general figurine is the tenth of its kind to be excavated from the emperor Qin Shi Huang's tomb, ...
History has long celebrated its ancient world pioneers, yet many great deeds of overlooked figures have faded with their names.
Scientists in China have just dug up 500-million-year-old embryos that will help us understand the developmental biology of ...
Events during one period in Chinese history indicate that for many, dying for honour was far more desirable than living a ...
The fireworks that we see today didn't always look as elaborate. According to some historians, fireworks date back to China's Han dynasty (202 BC—220 AD), when people threw bamboo stems into a ...
BEIJING -- Archaeologists have unearthed the tiniest known cat fossil at an ancient human site in East China, identified as ...
Courtesy of Tang Yunpeng. A joint archaeological team formed by China and Uzbekistan has discovered a large number of ...