WEI YUNHUI/FOR CHINA DAILY Yuan Tingdong had ... the Shu are harder than climbing the sky". The Ancient Shu Roads were built on mountains so precipitous that Li lamented this feature in his poem, Shu ...

To track the species' decline, researchers have turned to an unusual source— ancient Chinese poetry. Researchers analyzed 724 ancient Chinese poems that referenced the Yangtze porpoise.

“Poems are actually ancient citizen science,” says study co-author Jiajia Liu, an ecologist at Fudan University in China, to McKenzie Prillaman at Science News. “These data are not perfect.

WEI YUNHUI/FOR CHINA DAILY Yuan ... climbing the sky". The Ancient Shu Roads were built on mountains so precipitous that Li lamented this feature in his poem, Shu Dao Nan (Hard Is the Road to ...

Egyptian archaeologists recently found an ancient sword belonging to the military of Ramesses II, the pharaoh that scholars believe was referenced in the Book of Exodus. The Egyptian Ministry of ...

Dive into the ancient world as we uncover the gripping tale of the Sword of King Gou Jian ... of Yue during the Spring and Autumn period of China, and what makes it truly mystifying is its ...

Some rare Chinese texts missing from the Chinese mainland have been republished recently, marking the latest cooperation with foreign institutions in the research and preservation of ancient ...

Seven-year-old Claire LeMaster has been playing the ancient Chinese game of Mahjong for a year. "When my mom is playing with her friends, I can help her a lot, and then if you're in a Mahjong ...

Ancient philosopher ... In many translations of the Chinese Bible, including the popular Chinese Union Version, you will find this concept rendered as “the Dao (Tao).” In English, Dao is ...

To survey the vast body of Chinese archeological and cultural antiquities ... And just as it did in ancient times, weather extremes driven by climate change are again threatening to destroy ...

What did an ancient Chinese emperor from 1,500 years ago look like? A team of researchers reconstructed the face of Chinese Emperor Wu of Northern Zhou using DNA extracted from his remains.