Prompted by our adventurous spirit, our tour group set out to explore a stretch of the ancient Silk Road less traveled by ...

Humans have been stargazing for thousands—possibly hundreds of thousands of years. Ancient people around the globe looked to the heavens for physical and spiritual guidance. Dozens and dozens of ...

FOR MORE than 3,500 years the mummified remains of the Xiaohe people lay undisturbed in a desert cemetery in Xinjiang in western China. Then, in 1979, a team of archaeologists got their hands on them.

What did an ancient Chinese emperor from 1,500 years ago look like? A team of researchers reconstructed the face of Chinese Emperor Wu of Northern Zhou using DNA extracted from his remains. The study ...

What did an ancient Chinese emperor from 1,500 years ago look like? A team of researchers reconstructed the face of Chinese Emperor Wu of Northern Zhou using DNA extracted from his remains. The study, ...

A mummy from the Xiaohe Cemetery, with dairy remains scattered around the mummy’s neck. HONG KONG — When the 3,600-year-old coffin of a young woman was excavated in northwestern China two decades ago, ...

While two of the tombs were robbed, one was left untouched, and it contained a box full of glazed pottery, among other goods. Chinese Academy of Social Science’s Institute of Archaeology ...

A roughly 1-million-year-old Chinese hominid skull has long vexed efforts to nail down its evolutionary identity. Fossil comparisons using a new digital reconstruction of this specimen, dubbed the ...