In Jingdezhen, China an ancient ceramics factory is being transformed into Taoxi Mingzhu, a landmark mixed-use complex ...

A stunning 1000-year-old town in East China has been described as the ‘the Venice of Asia’. Quiet Nanxun, just outside the ...

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MAEBASHI--Archaeologists uncovered an estimated 100,000 ancient coins ... 175 B.C. Those were the first coins minted in a unified China. Because the site was near large residences of important ...

A NASA spacecraft has returned asteroid samples that hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty ...

During his lifetime, Qin Shi Huang became obsessed with achieving immortality and sought the elusive elixir of life.

The Lunar New Year begins today, Jan. 29. It's a complex holiday with much symbolism crammed into days of festivities filled ...

Nanxun, a stunning 1,000-year-old town in China, is known as "the Venice of the East" - and it's not hard to see why.

In Chinese mythology, I learned that the creators of mankind were in fact a hybrid of human and snake, which is why the ancient Chinese worshipped the snake totem. The snake is also known as the ...

during the first national cultural relic census conducted by the People's Republic of China, which had been founded three years earlier, researchers were overjoyed to "rediscover" this large Yuan ...

Winter Olympics not only put Beijing and Zhangjiakou in Hebei province on the map of winter tourism but left world-class ...

Credit: Carole Raddato, Flickr CC-BY-SA 2.0 The Byzantine Empire, which was known at the time as the Eastern Roman Empire, maintained a relatively unknown and intriguing relationship with ancient ...