Three tombs from the second Jin Dynasty were uncovered in China, shedding new light onto ... social ethics, ancient architectural characteristics, tomb architecture, and funeral customs, providing ...

This story appears in the May 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. Grand Canal barges have no fancy names, no mermaids planted on the bow, no corny sayings painted on the stern. Instead ...

In early 2024, an exhibition titled Splendid Tang Dynasty: Archaeological Excavation and Conservation of Murals in Han Xiu's ...

A study tracking rainfall patterns over thousands of years has found that more arid periods coincided with ages of dynastic ...

Unfortunately, no confirmed authentic works of Wang have survived and the reliability of the some hundred ancient copies ...

Archaeologists discovered three 1,800-year-old tombs from ancient China. The design of the tombs resembles that of a ...

The earliest ice skates in ancient China were primarily crafted from horse shinbones. Over time, wooden ice skates emerged, ...

Narrator: Over three and a half thousand years ago ancient China was ruled by a powerful family of kings. This period was known as the Shang dynasty. King Tang: I am King Tang and I rule over this ...

Nanjing is one of the six famous ancient ... China, the others being Xi'an, Beijing, Luoyang, Kaifeng, and Hangzhou. Starting with the Kingdom of Wu some 1,700 years ago, the dynasties of Eastern ...

Narrator: Over three and a half thousand years ago ancient China was ruled by a powerful family of kings. This period was known as the Shang dynasty. King Tang: I am King Tang and I rule over this ...