This city in China is one of the oldest in the country and it's filled with some of the most beautiful gardens and temples.

Explore Xi'an, the incredible ancient city and the ‘birthplace of civilisation,' home to the Terracotta Army and countless ...

A study tracking rainfall patterns over thousands of years has found that more arid periods coincided with ages of dynastic ...

The Shanxi Provincial Institute of Archaeology in North China's Shanxi Province has revealed new excavation findings ...

The earliest ice skates in ancient China were primarily crafted from horse shinbones. Over time, wooden ice skates emerged, ...

Items from Nanhai No 1, which sank during the Southern Song dynasty and was found in 1987, tell us about life in the past.

Bingxi as a form of performance for the court began in the Song Dynasty (960-1279) and reached its peak during Qing (1644-1911). Each year after the winter solstice (in late December), grand ice ...

The Niya ruins are located in Minfeng county in the Hotan prefecture, about 115 kilometers north of the modern-day Niya town.