European artisans turned a Tang Dynasty tomb guardian sculpture into a symbol of medieval Venetian statehood, researchers say.

Discover interesting facts about ancient China's rulers, philosophy, and the Great Wall of China.

On today's Planet Money, historian Kenneth Pomeranz explains why China's lower Yagtze River Valley was perhaps the best place on the planet to be poor, right up until the start of the Industrial ...

UB history professor Yan Liu probes the history of Chinese medicine through its medicinal substances to tell a previously unwritten story of the value poison acquired in Chinese medicine and culture.

"Recarving China's Past: Art, Archaeology and Architecture of the 'Wu Family Shrines,'" an exhibition that re-examines one of ancient China's great archaeological sites, is on display through Sunday, ...

A researcher has uncovered fascinating new details about the construction of ancient “pyramids” in China. There are over 40 “pyramid” mausoleums in China, which are huge artificial earth ...

Early medieval geographies highlighted spatial units and structures that the Qin-Han empire had intentionally sought to obscure-including those of regional, natural, and foreign spaces. Instead, these ...

Discovered via a metal detector in a field in Hampshire, the ancient chinese coin dates to the Northern Song dynasty.

Over the years, Chinese archaeologists have uncovered new jade relics that may shed light on the dawn of Chinese civilization ...