Ancient China began as a group of isolated communities during the Stone Age and eventually grew into a formidable empire.

For more than two thousand years, people have mapped the stars. But a new study claims one of the world’s oldest surviving ...

according to a report from China Daily. The project was based on an ancient bamboo text called the "Shi Fang" manuscript. The text offers a wealth of information on ancient Chinese cooking ...

A creature once revered in ancient Chinese folklore and immortalized in poetry for its playful spirit and perpetual smile is now swimming against extinction. The Yangtze finless porpoise—Asia ...

“Poems are actually ancient citizen science,” says study co-author Jiajia Liu, an ecologist at Fudan University in China, to McKenzie Prillaman at Science News. “These data are not perfect.

To track how this critically endangered porpoise's habitat range has changed over time, a team of biodiversity and conservation experts compiled 724 ancient Chinese poems referencing the porpoise ...

This photo taken on May 16, 2025 shows China ancient silk manuscripts from the Warring States period at the Chinese Embassy in Washington, D.C., the United States. (Xinhua/Hu Yousong) The return is a ...

India's Chandrayaan-3 and China's Chang'e-6 missions have independently discovered primitive lunar mantle materials near the Moon's South Pole-Aitken basin. The Indian study, through in-situ ...

Long Zhen, director of the Jinyang Ancient City Research Institute of ... The murals coat the entire tomb, save for the floor. The South China Morning Post wrote that the artwork is styled ...

Ancient poems tell the story of an iconic aquatic species' demise over 1,400 years, reveals new research. Endemic to China’s Yangtze River, the Yangtze finless porpoise is known for its ...