Archaeologist Liu Rui from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences couldn't believe what his excavation team found last summer among broken palace stones at the Yueyang archaeological site.

In late 2025, archaeologists stunned the world with news of a vast network of ancient tunnels buried beneath a long-forgotten stone city in northern China. This discovery has sparked fresh questions ...

The record reveals dramatic swings. Three dry intervals brought less than 700 millimeters of rain per year, while two wet ...

Old beliefs about early human behavior in East Asia are being challenged by the discovery of a richly-layered archaeological ...

A centuries-old medicinal root is gaining renewed scientific attention for its ability to target multiple biological ...

A new study involving researchers from Oxford's Department of Earth Sciences has finally solved the mystery of what caused ...

A centuries-old Chinese medicinal root is getting new scientific attention as a potential game-changer for common hair loss.

The chance rediscovery of the ancient Chinese Sanxingdui civilization is legendary in and of itself. In 1929, an unsuspecting peasant in Sichuan province stumbled upon a cache of jade relics while ...

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

While two of the tombs were robbed, one was left untouched, and it contained a box full of glazed pottery, among other goods. Chinese Academy of Social Science’s Institute of Archaeology ...

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 ...

On Oct. 13, 2025, the World Expo in Osaka, Japan reached its final day after 184 bustling days and nights. All participants hoped to give the grand event a perfect ending, and the award-winning China ...