A new study of ancient Chinese astronomical records of the Zhou Dynasty has strengthened the case that a solar eclipse ...

Archaeologists in China uncovered an 8-mile section of a 2,200-year-old Qin Dynasty road, revealing new clues about imperial ...

GUIYANG, Dec. 9 (Xinhua) — For Italian mezzo-soprano Erica Cortese, 31, the greatest challenge in performing Chinese Tang ...

Long before modern observatories and spacecraft, court scribes in ancient China were quietly building one of humanity’s first ...

On a cold winter afternoon, as the archaeological work at a well-preserved ancient city site in Longyao county, Xingtai, in ...

The modern house cat reached China in the 8th century. Before that, another cat — the leopard cat — hunted the rodents in ancient Chinese settlements.

Archaeologists have discovered the ruins of an ancient palace that served as the summer retreat for the elite members of the Liao Dynasty. To escape the oppressive heat, each year from mid-April to ...