DNA analysis of ancient remains from northwestern China has unveiled a chilling picture of ritualized sacrifice in a 4,000-year-old Neolithic society, where men and women met drastically different ...

Chinese archaeologists uncovered the largest Ming Dynasty cannon ever found during excavations at the Great Wall’s Jiankou section, alongside rare artifacts and ancient structures.

Ultimately, these 573 fortresses redefine what we know about northern China’s prehistory. Long before the first emperors unified the land, people were already experimenting with civilization, laying ...

BEIJING, Nov. 29, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- In east China coastal city of Wenzhou, a conference focusing on latest discoveries ...

The waters of Lake Issyk-Kul have hidden an important Silk Road city ever since an earthquake shifted the region’s landscape.

A new study published in Nature on November 26 has shed light on the origins, population structures, and kinship systems of ...

A 13-year study of DNA samples collected from the 4,000-year-old Shimao site, a complex of gigantic prehistoric ruins on the ...

The burial mound of Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor of a unified China, is one of the most tantalizing unopened tombs on Earth, yet it remains sealed beneath a forested hill in Shaanxi province.

Infrared scans of newly studied slips from the Marquis of Haihun tomb have confirmed the first known complete version of The ...

BANGKOK, Nov. 12, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- On October 30, 2025, the special exhibition "Myth of Rice Cultivation: Ideas, Beliefs, and Memories", part of the Zhejiang Archaeology and Chinese Civilization ...

Thirty years have passed, yet Yue Feng, a researcher at the National Museum of China, still vividly remembers the awe he felt the moment the coffin lid was lifted and a national treasure was revealed ...

A magnificent and massive tomb belonging to an early Chinese king, likely from a ‘complex society’ and dated to 5,000-years-ago, has been unearthed at the Wangzhuang ruins in Yongcheng, Henan province ...