A recent archaeological excavation in northwest China has uncovered a 3,000-year-old burial site containing deliberately broken bronze weapons, offering a remarkable glimpse into ancient attitudes ...

From eavesdroppers in teahouses to ‘inner informants’ in royal palaces, scandal merchants peddled stories of adultery and ...

(Reuters) -In 1990, an ancient human skull was unearthed in China's Hubei Province that was so badly deformed during fossilization that it was hard to gauge its significance. A new analysis now ...

The assemblage suggests that the ancestors of some of today’s animal groups may have arisen before the famed Cambrian ...

(Mark Garlick/Science Photo Library/Getty Images) A strange chunk of metal that lay hidden in the soil for thousands of years may shed new light on one of the most mysterious cultures in ancient China ...

Grappling partially clothed, sometimes naked, women drew large crowds, emperors but complaints from conservative officials ...

During the Qing dynasty (1644–1912), public toilets charged usage fees, and some even featured novels and advertisements to ...