The Chinese New Year is deeply embedded as the preeminent holiday in China, ranking with Western traditions like Christmas in ...

The multiregional scientific model, which suggested discrete ancestry roots for the Chinese people, dovetailed with ... thanks to advances in the field of ancient DNA, making them particularly ...

The octagonal-shaped tomb depicts tales with some very grim details, indicating that life definitely wasn't easy at the time.

This week, meet a big-brained ancient human relative, hear a meteorite as it lands on Earth, spot a tiny kangaroo-like ...

In the 1200s, a Chinese official described Alexandria and its lighthouse in remarkable detail given the vast distance.

In a message to greet the Chinese New Year, also known as the Spring Festival, Manet said the peoples of Cambodia and China ...

Snakes were not unfamiliar to ancient Chinese people. In Shuowen Jiezi ("an explanation of Chinese characters"), a basic reference book on Chinese characters written in the second century ...

The find marks the longest urban thoroughfare ever discovered at Yinxu and is the longest known preserved road of ancient China, People's Daily reported. The archaeological team confirmed the ...