Warmer waters in the Pacific Ocean may have brought devastating floods to the cradle of ancient Chinese civilization, according to a recent study in which its authors link three wildly different lines ...

Fish motifs from a Neolithic Yangshao culture site, also in Shaanxi: a ritual wine vessel dated to the early Western Zhou ...

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

Researchers studying an ancient tomb in China have found direct evidence that cannabis was a staple food crop during the Tang dynasty more than 1,000 years ago. Previous research into the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Ming Dynasty marked a pivotal period in Chinese history. It characterized nearly 300 years of life in region and produced some ...

While being plump had a place in China's history, extreme diets, constricting clothes formed part of nation's centuries-old ...

The Qing were the first Chinese state to effectively control regions like Tibet, Xinjiang, Manchuria, and Mongolia, peripheral regions that were inhabited by people that had always harassed China.

Archaeologists have discovered the ruins of an ancient palace that served as the summer retreat for the elite members of the Liao Dynasty. To escape the oppressive heat, each year from mid-April to ...

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