Yet, Chi was never satisfied with this idea. She began looking deeper and discovered through her research that nobles in ancient China traditionally wore a single layer of lightweight fabric, such as ...

FOR MORE than 3,500 years the mummified remains of the Xiaohe people lay undisturbed in a desert cemetery in Xinjiang in western China ... of goats belonging to ancient Eurasian steppe people ...

The ancient elite of China were not the only ones who were trying to find a way to be immortal. We all want to live forever—or at least stave off natural deterioration for as long as possible.

An ancient Greek grave stele shows a symbolic handshake between a father and son. CHINA DAILY Nanjing Museum highlights power of Athenian art, Zhao Xu reports. A man, probably in his early 20s ...

Our mission is to deliver unbiased, fact-based reporting that holds power to account and exposes the truth. Whether $5 or $50, every contribution counts. Scientists have successfully extracted DNA ...

A new exhibition on ancient Chinese clothing was held in German capital Berlin. The exhibition traces the history of Chinese clothing, highlighting how the Confucian core value of “ritual” is ...

A recent study from mainland China has highlighted the types of archaeological insights that are expected to become increasingly common as artificial intelligence (AI) technology is employed more ...

Taiwanese-American historian Hsu Cho-yun (許倬雲) yesterday said his work regarding the ancient Chinese myth of Da Yu (大禹) was an example of integrating social science methodologies into historical ...

A year-long global commemoration of Liu Hui, a prominent figure in ancient Chinese mathematics, kicked off in Paris on Tuesday. Co-hosted by the China Association for Science and Technology (CAST ...

The announcement came at a routine press briefing on September 5th. Mao Ning, a foreign-ministry spokesperson, said China was grateful for the “desire and love” of the foreign families who ...

Bronze Age desert dwellers unearthed from graves in what’s now northwest China were buried with cheese ... open a “new frontier in ancient DNA studies,” with this “type of research ...

SINGAPORE—While China asserts a more muscular influence on global affairs, Western experts face growing constraints in their efforts to study the emerging superpower. Scholars researching ...