In 2017, the Integration of Chinese Ancient Books project was initiated ... copy of Ming Dynasty official Fu Jun's manuscript on iron metallurgy - housed at St Petersburg University in Russia ...

In modern Chinese, jin means gold ... this type of analysis could help researchers decipher other texts about ancient metallurgy from different cultures and regions in the future, the researchers ...

Researchers might have cracked an ancient Chinese formula for making bronze ... revealing an invisible step in early metallurgy.

This mix of cultures made Chu a melting pot of diversity in ancient times. Chu was renowned for its advanced metallurgy ... The Chu was the only Chinese kingdom standing in the way of the Qin ...

Ancient Chinese people developed their own writing system and several famous philosophies that are still studied today. The civilization is also known for building the Great Wall of China.

The scientists pored over more than 700 ancient Chinese poems from the Tang through the Qing dynasties that mention the Yangtze finless porpoise to find out where and when poets described seeing ...

It has now become really dry, dense and hard dust,” said Fu Qiaomei, a paleogeneticist at the Chinese Academy of Sciences ... the cheese that laced her body. Ancient burial practices often ...