ANCIENT CHINA's former capital of Kaifeng was destroyed by a horror Yellow River flood, which killed around 300,000 people - but new research has exposed the true extent of the devastation that ...

Endemic to China's Yangtze River, the Yangtze finless porpoise is known for its intelligence and charismatic appearance; it looks like it has a perpetual smile on its face. To track how this ...

According to historical records, after Zhang Qian opened the ancient Silk Road across the Kunlun Mountains, Emperor Wu also chartered Kunlun as the origin of the Yellow River, which is more widely ...

The Imago Mundi, the oldest known world map, offers a rare glimpse into the way ancient Babylonians viewed their world. Carved onto a clay tablet around the 5th century BCE, it was uncovered in ...

5 fast facts about Ancient China Around 3,000 years ago, people in ancient China used "oracle bones" — tortoise shells or bones inscribed with Chinese writing — to predict the future.

On a Chinese River, Archeologists Discover Salt’s Ancient History By Thomas H. Maugh II Aug. 27, 2005 12 AM PT Times Staff Writer ...

The Yangtze No. 2 Ancient Shipwreck is transferred to a dock near the Huangpu River in Shanghai, east China, Nov. 25, 2022. The ancient shipwreck, one of the largest and best-preserved wooden ...

The ancient city, uncovered in January along the north bank of the Kongque River, sat in the depths of the desert, 57.5km to the west of an ancient city of the Loulan Kingdom that Swedish explorer ...

World Treasure-filled tombs — 12,000 years old — exposed by drought in China, photos show By Aspen Pflughoeft March 17, 2023 10:11 AM ...