Emperor Qin Shi Huang of the Qin dynasty was the first emperor of ancient China and ruled from 221 B.C. to 210 B.C. He's most ...

The Zidanku Silk Manuscripts were smuggled into the United States in the 1940s. Scholars say they provide remarkable insights ...

Buddhist temples in China are home to trees from dozens of endangered species, a new study shows. Some of them are almost ...

Shi’s Star Catalog has been notoriously difficult to date, but new research suggests astronomers drafted it centuries before its Western counterpart.

Scholars say they provide remarkable insights into ancient Chinese philosophy and religion More than a millennium ago, a Maya community collapsed in the face of a devastating drought. One writer ...

In Chinese, the ancient Nestorian Church is called jing jiao (景教), or “the Religion of Bright Light.” After the fall of the Tang dynasty, the arrival of Nestorian Christianity in China was ...

According to Smith, in a territory as vast as ancient China, which included peoples of different languages, religions, and customs, making everyone feel part of the same country was a complex task.

Today, archaeologists study ancient Chinese artifacts to find clues about the civilization's culture, religion and technological developments. At the beginning, there were only groups of communities.