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.

Traveling along the Tea Horse Road unlocks a land of teahouses, centuries-old monasteries, and epic valley views.

China Merchants Bank <3968.HK> <600036.SS> is in exclusive talk to buy Hong Kong's Wing Lung Bank <0096.HK>, a spokesman for Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) <1398.HK> said on Friday.

Five dynasties, or families, ruled ancient China for more than 6,000 years. The last one of the ancient period, the Han dynasty, ruled around the same time as the ancient Roman Empire.