Amid ancient bronze masks and crumbling temples, a distant chapter of China's Shu civilization now resonates globally through ...

At the Shanghai Museum in East China, a towering 2.4-meter-tall statue of Pharaoh Merneptah greets visitors to On Top of the ...

At the archaeological site of Sanxingdui in Sichuan, China, a trove of items was found in a series of sacrificial pits that shed light on the secrets of an ancient Chinese civilization. The ...

A rare 3,000-year-old gold mask has been uncovered, offering archeologists a glimpse into ancient Chinese culture. The mask was discovered by archeologists in ancient royal tombs in the province ...

There are dairy residues on 7,000-year-old European pottery, for example, and cheese may also have been used in ancient Egyptian burial rites. Archaeology has never been funkier.

Draped in Qing dynasty robes and sporting fanged teeth, long nails and grasping, outstretched arms, the Chinese hopping corpse, jiangshi, is a variation on the vampire that you won’t soon forget!

Editor’s note: “Fair Ladies — Digital Representations of Ancient Chinese Women,” a Zhejiang Museum exhibition of more than 1,000 paintings from 32 museums across China, was held first online in 2021 ...

Each of the 23 wooden slips is about an inch (2.5 centimeters) wide and 4 inches (10 cm) long and displays a Chinese character related to the Tiangan Dizhi, or "Ten Heavenly Stems and 12 Earthly ...

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