Experts say that an oft-circulated anecdote about two royal astronomers drunkenly failing to foresee an eclipse thousands of ...

By mixing romance, time travel and real history, Yanbian Qingmei has revived interest in revered Tang dynasty calligrapher ...

The earliest solar eclipse for which we have a record appears in the ancient Chinese text Shujing, traditionally said to have ...

Long before anyone posted cat photos online, people in China wrote poems to their cats, drafted adoption contracts, and ...

A new study of 2,316 burials from China’s Central Plain suggests that ancient inequality became durable thousands of years ...

A new study has found that the people who made China’s Terracotta Army may have included women and children, not only adult ...

Researchers digitally mapped ancient Chinese tombs and discovered that their distribution mirrors shifts in political stability, population movements, and natural geography. Peaceful, prosperous eras ...

A nearly 400-year-old granite bridge has re-emerged from Poyang Lake in Jiangxi Province, eastern China, as water levels decline. Known as the Qianyan, or “Thousand-Eye” Bridge, the 1.65-mile ...

Today, neuroscience treats consciousness as a process that is confined to the brain, as something that makes us aware of information that would otherwise be unconscious. This view is underpinned by an ...

The trade war between the U.S. and China rages on but it did not spoil the mood of bidders taking part in a fine classical Chinese paintings auction in Hong Kong as an ancient scroll sold for a record ...

Two molecular studies link the nearly complete Harbin skull, at least 146,000 years old, to the elusive Denisovan lineage.