When archaeologists raid ancient tombs, they usually uncover the trinkets and tchotchkes people hoped to carry with them into ...

Chinese archaeologists work at the Mingtepa site in Uzbekistan Photo: Courtesy of Liu Tao. China's overseas archaeological ...

Breakthrough by woman pioneer led to jail, execution for son who agreed with her decision to dissect her dead husband.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ancient China began as a group of isolated communities during the Stone Age and eventually grew into a formidable empire. Ancient ...

There is a field in Anyang, Henan Province, in central China, that archaeologists have been digging carefully for nearly a ...

Microscopic analysis of residues on surgical scissors and tweezers from a 1348–1411 CE tomb in Jiangyin, China, finds the ...

Geyuan Temple in North China's Hebei Province, reopened to the public this May, houses the wooden architecture that dates ...

In ancient times, fame was cultivated in streets, restaurants, poetry circles, where beauty and talent transformed poets, ...

A joint archaeological project between Greece’s culture ministry and a Chinese team of researchers is breaking new ground.

Official forms of discipline in imperial China could see lawbreakers' hands cut off; eyebrows shaved or faces tattooed ...