GUANGZHOU -- China is currently home to approximately 5.08 million ancient and famous trees that are preserved, as announced at a national ancient and famous tree protection event in south China's ...

In 1990, an ancient human skull was unearthed in China’s Hubei Province that was so badly deformed during fossilisation that it was hard to gauge its significance. A new analysis now indicates that ...

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Skull from Hubei Province is about a million years old Researchers conducted digital reconstruction on skull Study has implications for Homo sapiens lineage timeline Sept 25 (Reuters) - In 1990, an ...

To understand Chinese culture, it is necessary to go back to the very beginning of its civilisation. In this series, we look at the most influential dynasties in Chinese history and how each, with its ...

In the heart of the Gobi Desert, where the sands whisper tales of ancient times, lies an unexpected culinary delight immortalised in stone – perhaps indicative of the world’s oldest barbecue party. In ...

History becomes legend. Legend becomes myth. At best, historians hope that at least a kernel of truth lingers lost among centuries’ worth of embellishment, propaganda, and hype. But the gap between ...

The lion may have been brought from China in the mid-1260s and modified in Venice between 1270 and 1290. Wolfgang Moroder via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 3.0 For hundreds of years, an iconic ...

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The ancient Persians were an amazing civilization, and incredible inventors. Here are their 3 most incredible ancient inventions, the Windcatchers (their form of ancient air-conditioning), Yakhchals ...