Long before modern observatories and spacecraft, court scribes in ancient China were quietly building one of humanity’s first ...

Ancient DNA is rewriting the origin story of the cat curled on the sofa. Long before the familiar house cat padded into ...

The chance rediscovery of the ancient Chinese Sanxingdui civilization is legendary in and of itself. In 1929, an unsuspecting peasant in Sichuan province stumbled upon a cache of jade relics while ...

A NASA planetary scientist has proposed what may be the first scientifically sound explanation for the mysterious Star of Bethlehem that guided the three wise men to the infant Jesus over two ...

TROY, Ala. (WSFA) - China is roughly 10,000 miles away from Troy, Alabama. But when it comes to some ancient Chinese history, they’re closer than you may think. “We are a long ways away, but in so ...

Because this record survived, we know more about ancient Chinese history, the rotation of the Earth, and past solar activity ...

By Karen Taylor The famed silk roads, which connected ancient China to the rest of the world, were not so named until many ...

Zhao Zeming, the concert's music director and a young composer, states that the guqin and the Grand Canal mirror two ...

Teenager with a passion for history collects items stretching across China’s dynasties; says packed bedroom is the ‘container of my spirit’.

Ancient Chinese astronomers observed a solar eclipse in 709 BCE with remarkable detail. These old records are now helping ...