CHENGDU, June 24 (Xinhua) -- In the heartland of China, near a 4,500-year-old farmland, a team of agricultural scientists is modernizing an ancient practice. They are using big data analytics and ...

5 fast facts about Ancient China. Around 3,000 years ago, people in ancient China used "oracle bones" — tortoise shells or bones inscribed with Chinese writing — to predict the future.

Kids. Lunar New Year animals. Lunar New Year animals. Read. The Trung sisters freed ancient Vietnam from China’s Han dynasty. History Magazine.

Around 2,200 years ago, ancient China's first emperor, Qin Shi Huang, began connecting many small walls to build the now-famous Great Wall of China. It eventually became over 13,000 miles (20,000 ...

This is part of a broader effort to celebrate past glories. China’s ancient culture is the “root and soul” of the nation, says Mr Xi, who aims to build “cultural confidence”.

These claims may sound academic, but China’s government is using them to justify its brutal rule over Xinjiang. At the peak of a security campaign in 2018-19, perhaps a million Uyghurs and other ...

Archeologists in China have found the remains of what may be the world’s oldest known flush toilet.. Broken parts of the 2,400-year-old lavatory, as well as a bent flush pipe, were unearthed ...

The invention of paper, which occurred in ancient China around the 2nd century, made for a more efficient writing medium than clay tablets or papyrus, which were popular then.