The Shanghai Museum East is running a new exhibition, Legends of Dragon, the Ancient Civilization of Hongshan Culture, from ...

Step inside China’s most iconic historical site: the Forbidden City. Discover the imperial palaces, ancient rituals, and ...

One of the tombs dating back to the Jin Dynasty (1115-1234) even allows visitors to enter the chamber itself through a glass ...

Thousands of life-size terra-cotta soldiers stand in Pit 1, the largest repository of figurines at the third-century B.C. funerary complex of Emperor Qin Shi Huangdi, near Xi’an, China.

The Imperial Palace of the Qing Dynasty in Shenyang consists of 114 buildings constructed between 1625–26 and 1783. It contains an important library and testifies to the foundation of the last dynasty ...

A truck travelling on Pakistan’s Karakoram Highway, near the China–Pakistan border. Photo: Christopher Wilton-Steer Few places conjure up the myths and legends of the Silk Road quite like Kashgar.

Buddhist temples in China are home to trees from dozens of endangered species, a new study shows. Some of them are almost 2,000 years old. A Phoebe zhennan tree, about 400 years old, in the Wen-Qi ...

A tourist forced his way into the third-century BCE “Terracotta Army,” a group of thousands of ancient sculptures of soldiers in Shaanxi province in China, resulting in damage to some of the ...

China’s Terracotta Army, a remarkable collection of 8,000 clay sculptures of life-sized warriors, was constructed more than 2,000 years ago on the order of Emperor Qin Shi Huang. But it took a tourist ...

A man has reportedly jumped into a pit at the terracotta warriors museum in China, damaging two of the famous ancient clay warriors.. According to a statement from public security officials ...