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.

Historian David Soria dedicates a monumental biography, with special emphasis on military matters, to the first Caesar of ...

Bowers Museum Chief Curator, Tianlong Jiao, left, gives the media a first look at the “Kneeling Archer,” a 2,200-year-old piece of art from China just unboxed at the museum in Santa Ana on ...

Studies of ancient DNA have generally found that societies in Neolithic and Bronze Age Eurasia were organized around the male line. However, investigation of the Fujia archaeological site in ...

Ruled by an ancient theological order of Buddhist monks, Tibet had no army worth its name and was quickly overrun. China’s ...