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 ...

The discovery reveals an unexpected connection to the ancient Silk Road.

Archaeologists uncover a 2,000-year-old Han Dynasty settlement in China, revealing rare details of suburban life near ancient ...

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 ...

Shanxi Province, dubbed China's "above-ground cultural relics museum," boasts 531 nationally protected key cultural relic sites, including three intact wooden structures from the Tang Dynasty (618-907 ...

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 ...

Yinxu - known as the last capital of the Shang - is one of China’s most important archaeological sites, famous for oracle bone inscriptions and monumental burials. The new pits add another layer: not ...

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 ...