Due to the dry climate where the coin was discovered, the desert patina on an ancient bronze composition coin is a sandy ...

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A millet-farming settlement on the Shandong coast in Neolithic China around 4,500 years ago organized its society by maternal ...

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Qin Shi Huang famously sent alchemists east to Japan seeking immortality. Now, a newly discovered inscription suggests he ...

The exhibits at the Opium War Museum in Humen include "opium paste" that fueled mass addiction in China in the early 19th century. [Photo by Satarupa Bhattacharjya/China Daily] The Qing ...

was the only gateway through which foreign traders could do business for a period in late imperial China. Known then as Canton, it was also the site of the opium wars in the 19th century.

Tian Win Nang squats on the hard-packed earth, balancing a kilogramme (2.2 pounds) of chocolate-coloured raw opium in each ...

Some feature illustrations of phoenixes and generic scenes from ancient China, while others are decorated with Chinese calligraphy.