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 ...

Courtesy of the Shandong Underwater Archaeology Research Center. A well-preserved salt production workshop active during the ...

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 ...

The Niya ruins are located in Minfeng county in the Hotan prefecture, about 115 kilometers north of the modern-day Niya town.

In shows and films, famous historical people in ancient China are often shown wearing ... and upper classes used cosmetics during the Tang dynasty (618-907). The researchers found that make ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

It will be displayed at the Chongqing China Three Gorges Museum ... Liu told the Global Times. Another ancient stone column from the Eastern Jin Dynasty (317-420) is also special.

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 ...