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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ancient China began as a group of isolated communities during the Stone Age and eventually grew into a formidable empire. Ancient Chinese people developed their own writing system and several famous ...

The Ming Dynasty marked a pivotal period in Chinese history. It characterized nearly 300 years of life in region and produced some valuable goods that often still survive to this day behind museum ...

An exhibition delving into the profound legacy of China's ancient academies, known as Shuyuan, opened Monday at the National ...

Here’s What You Need To Remember: The Qing could have done better at focusing on threats from the sea—first the West, and then Japan. On the whole, however, the Qing managed to lay the basis of ...

A 14-year-old boy from central China has turned his bedroom into a small museum dedicated to ancient Chinese history and literature. Xie Zhaoyutong, a secondary school student from Henan province, has ...