Ancient China began as a group of isolated communities during the Stone Age and eventually grew into a formidable empire.

The decorative patterns and symbols on Chinese pottery crafted during prehistoric times were made with hard writing tools instead of the long, soft brushes, a Chinese archaeologist has said.

In a culture that placed extreme importance on reverence for ancestors, this remained an important tool well into the 19th century ... geomancy for a long time before it was used for navigation ...

Archaeologists have discovered stone tools from the Middle Paleolithic era in China, challenging the current understanding of human history. Archaeologists in southwestern China have unearthed ...

For more than two thousand years, people have mapped the stars. But a new study claims one of the world’s oldest surviving ...

The buried roots and stumps of an ancient forest in southern China are the charred remains ... suggesting that people were making copper farming tools and coins and using lead in cosmetics and ...

Neanderthals could have migrated east and reached what’s now China, or a different species of ancient human possibly made stone tools uncannily similar to those being made in Europe during this ...