PHOTO/CHINA BOUND] The Cuiyun Corridor Ancient Shu Road (the ancient road system to today's Sichuan province) stretches ...

A sealed stone coffin weighing roughly 16 tons, discovered in the sprawling necropolis surrounding the Terracotta Army near ...

Located along the Xiang River, Changsha was a vital administrative hub during the Han Dynasty and earlier Chu State. Archaeological excavations across the region have uncovered remarkable glimpses ...

Paleontologists in China have discovered the oldest chemically verified amber ever found, dating to 385 million years ago.

A Northern California man's elaborate ruse to purloin ancient Chinese manuscripts involved fakery and back-to-back flights to ...

In the southern Chinese fishing town of Tanmen, a museum shaped like a fishing boat safeguards Han Dynasty records asserting a millennia-old hold over “ancestral seas”. In Da Nang, Vietnam, a scenic ...

Homer’s Odyssey is a quest, following King Odysseus’s ten-year journey back home to Ithaca after the Trojan war. It is a tale with distinct geographic, spatial and temporal dimensions. It is no wonder ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Thousands of years ago on the continent of Asia, people lived their everyday lives in one of the ...

A digital tool lets users explore the Roman Empire’s road network and, using historical data, estimate how long journeys between cities took 2,000 years ago. A Dutch engineer has reconstructed, with ...

A visitor appreciates a stele rubbing on display at the Beijing Stone Carving Art Museum. [Photo by Wang Ru/chinadaily.com.cn ...

Scientists in China discovered that ancient humans were making surprisingly advanced stone tools during a harsh ice age 146,000 years ago. The tools, created by Homo juluensis, show careful planning ...

As US and Israeli bombardments rained down on Iran, damaging some cherished cultural sites, scores of Persian artifacts were safe and sound, 5,000 kilometers away in northern China, under the watchful ...