We often think of microbes as organisms that live around us, like the Salmonella bacteria and flu viruses that cause illness.

Beauty trends might seem like a fairly recent phenomenon, yet ancient China was already engaged in a rich and varied cosmetic ...

In 1978, archaeologists in Hubei, China, excavated the 5th-century BCE tomb of Marquis Yi of Zeng, unearthing one of the most ...

What kind of world do we want to create? To explore this question, we begin with an ancient Chinese saying that has traveled ...

One of the reasons that first inspired Lin Xi to mount an exhibition about the Chinese way of living was the transformation ...

Archaeologists in Shaoxing, in East China's Zhejiang Province, have uncovered hundreds of tinned iron armor plates dating back 1,700 years to the Three Kingdoms period. The discovery, made at the ...

Few would imagine that strands of lifesaving hair from Sun Wukong, the legendary Monkey King, could become an unexpected ...

A new study of 3,000-year-old bronze foils from Sanxingdui reveals advanced hammering, Chinese craft, and cultural exchange.

Tombs scattered across China, built between the 4,000-year old Xia Dynasty and the modern era, reflect the political and social patterns of Chinese history, according to a study published in PLOS One ...

An aerial drone photo shows a view of the Qiaonan ancient street in Quanzhou City, southeast China's Fujian Province, Aug. 18 ...

After two flights and one lengthy layover in Qatar, I finally made it from Larnaca to Beijing Daxing international airport, ...