Ancient plant seeds provide important archaeological evidence for studying the evolution of human civilization. Lingnan ...

A timeless Chinese saying suggests that the focus of our conversations may reveal more about our mindset than we realize.

Travelers are flocking to China’s newly built, photo-ready replica towns. From glistening palaces to majestic boulevards, ...

A quick glance at someone’s hands can reveal a lot about their daily routine. Long before modern manicures became a fashion ...

For 2,000 years, approximately 1,900 paintings have adorned the cliffs along the Zuojiang River in southern China — leaving ...

Yang Hexiang, director of the Yunnan Provincial Library, introduces the digital ancient books the institute released on Dec ...

A new study finds ancient Chinese settlements grew centralized over 6,000 years, shrinking from nine clusters to just two ...

The chance rediscovery of the ancient Chinese Sanxingdui civilization is legendary in and of itself. In 1929, an unsuspecting peasant in Sichuan province stumbled upon a cache of jade relics while ...

For thousands of years, the remains of a remarkable prehistoric city lay buried beneath the plains of central China, preserving clues to one of the Yangtze River region's earliest urban civilisations.

Ancient plants were capable of producing resin to protect themselves 65 million years earlier than previously thought, study ...

The trade war between the U.S. and China rages on but it did not spoil the mood of bidders taking part in a fine classical Chinese paintings auction in Hong Kong as an ancient scroll sold for a record ...