For more than two thousand years, people have mapped the stars. But a new study claims one of the world’s oldest surviving ...

The Indian subcontinent’s connections to the West, especially via the Roman empire, were far richer than once thought.

Among the more than 4,500 oracle bone characters discovered, the meanings of over 3,000 remain a mystery. Scholars now hope ...

Unraided crypts are hard to come by. And yet in 1968, soldiers stumbled upon the imperial family tombs of a Han dynasty ...

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art has deaccessioned fragments of the Zidanku Silk Manuscripts (fourth–third ...

A 2,300-year-old Chinese star chart challenges the origins of astronomy—sparking debate among experts about its true age.

Scientists studied more than 700 ancient Chinese poems that mention the Yangtze finless porpoise to determine its population ...

Shi Shen's Star Catalogue, also called the Star Manual of Master Shi, was deduced to be the world's oldest by scientists ...

Endemic to China's Yangtze River, the Yangtze finless porpoise is known for its intelligence and charismatic appearance; it ...

In the study, the team systematically dug through preserved poems dating back to the year 618 CE and found hundreds of ...