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As an enthusiast of Chinese architecture, I've always wondered how to share its beauty with international audiences in a way ...

The modern-day Bo people of southeastern China have long maintained that they had no connection to those inside the hanging ...

Ancient DNA is rewriting the origin story of the cat curled on the sofa. Long before the familiar house cat padded into ...

In Qingtian's terraced fields, fish and rice thrive in a symbiotic environment. The fish control pests and fertilize the rice ...

The chance rediscovery of the ancient Chinese Sanxingdui civilization is legendary in and of itself. In 1929, an unsuspecting ...

A new study revisits ancient Chinese records to explore whether a comet could explain the Star of Bethlehem described in ...

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The discovery’s highlight was a 247-pound cannon from the Ming dynasty, but archaeologists also found remains of crops and ...