Around 2,200 years ago, ancient China's first emperor, Qin Shi Huang, began connecting many small walls to build the now-famous Great Wall of China. It eventually became over 13,000 miles (20,000 ...

Experts believe that the discovery of a 7,500-year-old civilization, along the coast in southeastern China, may have been the origin of one of the greatest maritime migrations in human history.

Archaeologists at ruins of ancient site in Changsha found abandoned well with hundreds of bamboo slips: 1,700-year-old records, photos show. ... See ancient finds from China ...

An aerial drone photo taken on July 9, 2025 shows tourists watching a folk performance in Zhuqiao Village, Jinxi County of Fuzhou, east China's Jiangxi Province. Jinxi County, with centuries-long ...

Researchers visit an ancient pyramid in Peru in NOVA's Ancient Builders of the Amazon. Image Credit: Federico Pardo for NOVA/GBH For 50 years, NOVA has taken viewers on adventures through time and ...

More than 2,000 years after an artist in ancient China picked up a brush and a clam shell, researchers are getting the first glimpse at what they actually painted. Clams were eaten by people of ...

Using cutting-edge DNA analysis, scientists have uncovered the true identity of an ancient human relative nicknamed the "Dragon Man." The mystery began with a giant, human-like skull discovered by ...

Ancient Buddhist murals in northwestern China are under “direct threat” as a result of unprecedented levels of rainfall brought about by climate change, researchers said this week. Extreme ...

Calligraphy was once China’s highest art form—then the Communist Party tried to erase it. Now, under Xi Jinping, it’s making a comeback. At Sotheby’s in Hong Kong, a rare copy of the ...

These claims may sound academic, but China’s government is using them to justify its brutal rule over Xinjiang. At the peak of a security campaign in 2018-19, perhaps a million Uyghurs and other ...

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.