Dive into the depths of history as we uncover an astonishing underwater find: a 7,000-year-old road lying beneath the ...

Scientists in China have discovered one of the oldest known matrilineal societies—where family lines and inheritance are traced through a community’s women, not its men. Archaeologists unearthed the ...

A new study published in Nature on November 26 has shed light on the origins, population structures, and kinship systems of the people of Shimao—one of China's most significant late Neolithic ...

A recent study, jointly conducted by the Institute of Earth Environment at the Chinese Academy of Sciences and several Chinese and international research institutions, has found that soil temperature ...

Foxtail millet cultivated on the northern Loess Plateau, in present-day northern Shaanxi province. [Photo provided to China ...

This summer, the Shanghai Museum unveiled its latest blockbuster exhibition, “Legends of the Dragon: The Ancient Civilization of Hongshan Culture.” To date, it is the most comprehensive display of the ...

An Egyptian-Chinese cultural exchange forum, titled "Civilization Dialogue of Ancient Capitals (Cairo-Hangzhou)," was held Monday here, highlighting the depth of Egypt-China cultural ties as the two ...

4,900 years ago, a Neolithic people on the Danish island Bornholm sacrificed hundreds of stones engraved with sun and field motifs. Archaeologists and climate scientists can now show that these ritual ...