High on the sheer limestone cliffs in southwest China, ancient wooden coffins remain wedged into rock faces hundreds of feet ...

When electricity or fuel powers a machine, the machine gets hotter. Finding new ways to cool machines quickly and ...

From Deng Xiaoping to Xi Jinping, generations of Communist Party bosses and military leaders invested in a strategic but ...

Archaeologists working at a Bronze Age cemetery in northwest China have uncovered pottery vessels containing residue that reveals a sophisticated brewing technique dating back nearly 4,000 years. The ...

The chance rediscovery of the ancient Chinese Sanxingdui civilization is legendary in and of itself. In 1929, an unsuspecting peasant in Sichuan province stumbled upon a cache of jade relics while ...

The discovery of a new dicynodont species suggests early land animals moved across Pangaea later and more widely than ...

Guided by Tsinghua storytellers, 45 Chinese and international students visit Xiannongtan in Beijing on Nov 25 to appreciate traditional Chinese architecture. CHINA DAILY As an enthusiast of Chinese ...

This reflects a common belief in ancient China: treat the dead as if they were alive. In the burial chamber, there are murals of two people drinking, two maids cooking, and scenes of music and dancing ...

Sobek, crocodile-headed god of the Nile; Sekhmet, leonine goddess of war; Anubis, jackal god of the underworld; and Hathor, mother goddess with a cow’s horns: The ancient Egyptian pantheon of gods was ...

Chinese historians have long assumed that under China’s earliest imperial rulers, the Qin (221–206 B.C.) and Han (206 B.C.–A.D. 220) Dynasties, farmers turned over a fixed amount of their crops to the ...