The story of this ancient international heist reveals much about the ancient economies of both ancient Rome and China.

A Penang project spotlights the majie - celibate Chinese women who served as domestic helpers in South-East Asia ...

Ancient China began as a group of isolated communities during the Stone Age and eventually grew into a formidable empire.

The parts of the manuscript returning to China are Wuxing Ling and Gongshou Zhan, known by scholars as Volumes II and III.

Archaeologists are examining the burial site, grave by grave, to determine China's ancient global relations. Archaeologists ...

For more than two thousand years, people have mapped the stars. But a new study claims one of the world’s oldest surviving ...

Preserved burrows found in ancient rocks suggest that trap-jaw worms have burst from the sand to snatch fish for millions of years. Predatory sand striker worms can grow up to 10 feet in length.

Mentions of the critically endangered Yangtze finless porpoise in ancient Chinese poetry have revealed missing information about the habitat of the world’s only freshwater porpoise Almost 300 ...

Two major archaeological sites along the ancient Silk Road opened to the public in northwest China on Thursday, the first day of the May Day holiday, offering new choices for travelers keen to ...

A team of Chinese students recreated rice dishes based on recipes from the Western Han Dynasty, offering a glimpse into the culinary traditions of ancient China. The project, which brought ...

“Poems are actually ancient citizen science,” says study co-author Jiajia Liu, an ecologist at Fudan University in China, to McKenzie Prillaman at Science News. “These data are not perfect.