Chinese history is replete with the rise and fall of dynasties, but researchers now have identified a natural phenomenon that may have been the last straw for some of them: a weakening of the summer ...

Ancient China began as a group of isolated communities during the Stone Age and eventually grew into a formidable empire. Ancient Chinese people developed their own writing system and several famous ...

Featuring ancient ruins spanning from the Paleolithic Age to the Tang Dynasty (618-907), six sites were revealed by the ...

Researchers studying an ancient tomb in China have found direct evidence that cannabis was a staple food crop during the Tang dynasty more than 1,000 years ago. Previous research into the ...

When workers in northern China cut into a hillside for a new road, they did not expect to open a window onto a world where a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A bronze mask against a gray background. The mysterious origins of ancient bronzeware found in a part of northern China may have ...

Writers in the Tang period described “golden armor,” but archaeologists had not previously had a physical example to examine. That gap is what makes this restoration notable: the conservation work ...

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 ...