According to the inscription, five top-ranking officials had been ordered to seek medicinal herbs near Mount Kunlun, a ...

He says it's probably because the prince lived in the late Ming Dynasty — a period of declining economic vitality — with the ...

Uncover the fascinating Tyrannosaur story with the discovery of Khankhuuluu, a key link in dinosaur evolution.

"The Niuheliang site gave birth to the genes of China's dragon motifs and jade culture. The 'pig dragons' (known for their ...

High on the windswept Tibetan Plateau, at an altitude of more than 14,000 feet (4.27 km), a stone inscription has sparked a ...

History records the Chinese emperor Qin Shi Huang as sending the alchemist Xu Fu eastwards towards Japan on a quest for the elixir of immortality. However, the ancient texts make no mention of any ...

Creating thousands of live-size soldier statues to protect the mausoleum of China's first emperor was a massive operation, requiring many steps and close collaboration. Thousands of life-size ...

The county was named after an emperor of the Xia Dynasty, and the site spans over 80,000 square meters. ... coinciding with the early Xia Dynasty in China," Li added.

The Rebellion of the Ten Attendants in Dynasty Warriors Origins begins in the castle, and at first, everything is very empty, very quiet — too quiet. Rush ahead with the rest of the armor ...

DEEP in the ancient burial grounds of China’s first emperor, archaeologists made a discovery that could rewrite the story of one of the world’s most enigmatic military forces. Hidden among the ...

Records of the Xia dynasty first appeared in the Western Zhou dynasty (1045-771 B.C.), but it is absent from oracle bone inscriptions made during the late Shang dynasty. Scholars like Yang Kuan, Chen ...

Such is the portrait that has come down to us of Helian Bobo, also known as Wulie of Xia, the Xiongnu emperor who proclaimed himself a descendant of the first hereditary Chinese dynasty. Bobo, creator ...