The excavation of the Nanhai No 1 shipwreck revealed a robust smuggling operation in ancient China and a government that condoned it.

SANYA -- Twelve crew members were rescued from a ship in South China's island province of Hainan early Friday morning as Typhoon Wutip approaches, said local authorities.

In December 2007 the Nanhai No. 1 and its precious contents (weighing a total of 15,600 tons) were transferred to the Maritime Silk Road Museum of Guangdong on Hailing Island, which had been built ...

Architecture studio MAD has revealed its design for Nanhai Art Center on a waterfront site in Guangdong, China, which will have an undulating form modelled on moving water.

China’s carbon-dioxide emissions are so huge that, if the trend continues and they are shown to have actually peaked, that could alter the trajectory of global emissions. (America’s peaked in ...

Despite being more than 17,500 square meters in size, the Maritime Silk Road Museum of Guangdong (MSRMG) in Yangjiang, South China's Guangdong Province, is not famous for its grandeur, but its ...

Archaeologists will perform desalination on the Nanhai (South China Sea) No.1, the shipwreck of a cargo ship from the Song Dynasty (960-1279), and remove caissons for permanent protection, an ...

D eep under the South China Sea, below the reach of sunlight, lies treasure. Last year Chinese researchers found two rotting shipwrecks some 1,500 metres down and 20km apart. One contains ...

Ever since Nanhai No 1 was discovered in 1987, archaeologists and historians have been curious to understand its story. How did the ship sink and end up at the bottom of the South China Sea?