The seafarer peoples of the past who mastered the oceans were crucial in laying the foundations upon which civilizations were ...

In the early 1950s, Peking Opera master Mei Lanfang stood before a niche on the southern wall of the Ten Thousand Buddhas ...

Fossils in China reveal early life that predates animals and show that ancient ecosystems were more complex than previously ...

In niche corners of the Chinese internet, discussions of the very first dynasty stand in for critiques of today’s China.

Remarkably preserved fossils found in southern China offer a fascinating window into what life looked like at the end of the ...

China has announced its top 10 archaeological discoveries for 2025, revealing cultural exchange across thousands of years.

According to ancient Greek texts, this was a land of eternal spring, inhabited by a race of giants who lived for a thousand years without disease or war. They called it Hyperborea, a realm existing ...

Archaeologists work at the Xianrendong site in Huadian, Jilin province, part of a cluster of sites in Jilin listed among ...

This video uses Google Earth to bring China’s Three Kingdoms era to life. Watch as the territories of Wei, Shu, and Wu shift ...

At the foot of the rugged Helan Mountains in northwestern China, where sandy winds sweep across the plains of Yinchuan, a ...

At the "International Poets' Home" in Bute county's Daji Shalu village, 61-year-old Chinese poet Jidi Majia, a leading voice ...