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

The scientists that discovered the remains in China believe the DNA can play a big part in unlocking the history of Tibet.

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

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

From what I know about her, Guanyin is a-OK with my skeptical ways. I don’t believe in Greek, Egyptian or Hindu goddesses either, but I do appreciate the idea of a feminine divine archetype that ...

Solar and lunar eclipses have fascinated and frightened people for centuries. Long before modern science explained these celestial events, ancient cultures saw them as powerful omens and signs ...

On the fertile land of Shanxi, where the essence of Chinese civilization thrives, lie the most magnificent codes of ancient Chinese architecture. From the towering Buddhist temples to the ...

The aesthetic conception in traditional Chinese painting is an essential concept in ancient Chinese aesthetic thought and serves as the supreme aesthetic criterion pursued in classic painting creation ...

[Photo provided to China Daily] A batch of ancient Chinese silk manuscript fragments, believed to be older than the Dead Sea Scrolls, are returning to China after a handover ceremony at the US ...

Robinson, director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art, during a handover ceremony of the ancient Zidanku Silk Manuscripts from the Warring States period at the Chinese Embassy in the ...

Scientists discovered ancient tombs in Toksun County, Xinjiang, China. Credit: jt Guan / CC BY 3.0 Archaeologists have discovered hundreds of ancient Qin and Han tombs in Toksun County near the city ...