In late 2025, archaeologists stunned the world with news of a vast network of ancient tunnels buried beneath a long-forgotten stone city in northern China. This discovery has sparked fresh questions ...

A new study involving researchers from Oxford's Department of Earth Sciences has finally solved the mystery of what caused ...

When workers in northern China cut into a hillside for a new road, they did not expect to open a window onto a world where a ...

They discover that ancient Go game pieces were fired at over 1200 °C using advanced engraving and carburization techniques.

Chronology of Sinitic cores in the Early Medieval Period -- Introduction -- Metageographies -- China, reconsidered -- Geographical writing -- 1. Geographical writing -- Defining the genre -- Warring ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. – The apparent contradiction begins immediately, with the book’s title: “Healing with Poisons.” But in this sweeping examination of poison’s role in medieval Chinese medicine, Yan Liu, ...

Old beliefs about early human behavior in East Asia are being challenged by the discovery of a richly-layered archaeological site located in central China. The excavation project at Xigou, led by the ...

Researchers identified early handled tools that archeologists previously thought were not created in East Asia until ...

The chance rediscovery of the ancient Chinese Sanxingdui civilization is legendary in and of itself. In 1929, an unsuspecting peasant in Sichuan province stumbled upon a cache of jade relics while ...