Walking in the footsteps of ancient travelers along Shudao is breathtaking, with rock carvings and cliff inscriptions that ...

This is Shudao, or "Roads to Shu". Shu is a historical term roughly referring to present-day Sichuan province. The ancient ...

A cave painting discovered in Altay depicts ancient people skiing [Photo/Official Weibo account of the State Bureau of Cultural Relics] Throughout history, China has maintained a deep connection ...

Over 1,000 years ago, a ship left port in Guangzhou in southern China weighed down with a fortune of raw materials fit for a small nation. This Song dynasty (960-1279) trade vessel would not make ...

in ancient China, it probably was used as a tool to solidify social hierarchies. A team of scientists recently analysed a bronze-age tomb from the Qijia culture (2200BC-1600BC) located in Gansu ...

Nearly 1,000 pieces of treasure — including copper coins and ornate pottery from the Ming Dynasty — were recovered from a pair of ancient shipwrecks discovered in the South China Sea ...

Archaeologists discovered three 1,800-year-old tombs from ancient China. The design of the tombs resembles that of a residence, showing the importance of family, even during burial. While looters ...

Photo from the Institute of Archaeology at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and the China Archaeology Network. Obscured by dirt and forgotten to time, a pair of ancient wells — and their ...

Chinese archaeologists uncovered a 7,500-year-old civilization on Pingtan Island off the coast of Fujian province in southeastern China that suggests the island could have been an original source ...