Combining the writing on the bones with paleoclimate reconstructions, the team found how typhoon activity helped shift the ...

Archaeologists uncover relics from the Zhou Dynasty in China, revealing burial customs and daily life from 3,000 years ago.

Human evolution is a fiddly business, and few fossils encapsulate that more than two skulls unearthed in Hubei Province, ...

In ancient China there was a unique and quirky profession: if someone committed a crime and was sentenced to flogging, they ...

New study indicates Neolithic cultures in China may have separated graves of perinatal infants; different treatment than ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ancient China began as a group of isolated communities during the Stone Age and eventually grew into a formidable empire. Ancient ...

Scientists confirm a Bronze Age iron artifact from Sanxingdui was made from extraterrestrial material, revealing ancient ...

Warmer waters in the Pacific Ocean may have brought devastating floods to the cradle of ancient Chinese civilization, ...

The chance rediscovery of the ancient Chinese Sanxingdui civilization is legendary in and of itself. In 1929, an unsuspecting peasant in Sichuan province stumbled upon a cache of jade relics while ...

Condoms made from dried fish maw, hanging women upside down, pregnancy prevention was a dangerous business for women in ...