A new study maps locations of Chinese tombs, revealing over 4,000 years of power and wealth in early human societies.

DNA reveals that in prehistoric China, men remained in their community, while women joined new family lineages.

Among the highlights is a batch of digitized books donated by the Harvard-Yenching Library to the National Library of China ...

Tombs scattered across China, built between the 4,000-year old Xia Dynasty and the modern era, reflect the political and social patterns of Chinese history, according to a study published in PLOS One ...

The findings were recently announced by the Hebei Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology in Shijiazhuang.

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 ...

Archaeologists at the ruins of an ancient site in Changsha found an abandoned well with hundreds of 1,700-year-old records, photos show. Photo from the Institute of Archaeology at the Chinese Academy ...

The Composite Map of the Ming Empire (Da Ming Hunyi Tu) reflects the political situation in AD 1389 but was likely painted much later. Original Chinese labels were later covered with Manchu on paper ...

NMAHMAI copy 39088019137397 purchased from the NMAH Library Endowment. "Open access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295749013 At first glance, medicine and poison might seem to be opposites. But in China's ...