The ancient university of Nalanda was an “institution without borders” and a great magnet that attracted scholars from across the world, but it was also veritably a “centre for cultural diplomacy”, ...

Kouxian, or ancient jaw harp, is the earliest string instrument that has been found in China. By placing kouxian between the ...

Magnificent large-scale archaeological sites such as expansive settlements, city sites, palaces and mausoleums reflect ...

Sacrificial public buildings such as a goddess temple, a three-tiered round altar and rubble mound tombs have been found in ...

Ya'er Lake Grottoes in Turpan, Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Photo: VCG. Following AR (augmented reality ...

Two Buddhist cave complexes along the ancient Silk Road in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region opened to ...

Researchers found European-style Quina tools in China, dating back 55,000 years, challenging the view that East Asia’s Middle ...

Archaeologists previously assumed that East Asia did not see considerable tool development during the Middle Paleolithic, but ...

Stone tools unearthed in China's Yunnan province suggest Neanderthals or another ancient human species adapted to harsh ...

The most obvious possibility is that Neanderthals themselves reached China. Neanderthals are well documented in Europe, going ...

Apr. 2, 2025 — An international team has sequenced the first ancient genomes from the so-called Green Sahara, a period when the largest desert in the world temporarily turned into a humid ...

Fossils from China’s Turpan-Hami Basin reveal it was a rare land refuge during the end-Permian extinction, with fast ...