A stele at the Jingling Mausoleum in Beijing, which opens to the public through a reservation-only system on December 22, ...

Ming, the world’s oldest known animal, lived for 507 years before being accidentally killed by humans in 2006.

As an officially commissioned Buddhist canon from the Ming Dynasty, its calligraphy, engraving, and binding reflect the ...

More than six centuries ago, roughly 80 years ahead of Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama, Chinese admiral Zheng He reached ...

But whilst undeniably (and impressively) old, living through such events as the Aztec Empire and the exploding whale incident ...

The incredible country founded the largest contiguous land empire in history, but today it lies virtually empty.

In addition to the Ming dynasty-era cannon, archaeologists also found other remnants of daily life and military supplies.

Researchers recently made several discoveries that offer insight into daily life along the steepest, most rugged section of the Great Wall.

As with Taiwan, it treats any other sovereignty as non-existent. Many of the islands around Okinawa were independent kingdoms ...

A team of Chinese researchers has successfully pinpointed the growth years of three ancient timbers in the Forbidden City and ...

While the zodiac signs are often associated with personality and birth month, in ancient China, Capricorn came to symbolize ...