"This collection offers fresh insights into how the Qin unified China and the ancient civilizations that preceded it". The immersive journey begins with relics from Shimao, one of the earliest known ...

Creating thousands of live-size soldier statues to protect the mausoleum of China's first emperor was a massive operation, requiring many steps and close collaboration. Thousands of life-size ...

a Chinese-led team has discovered. To decipher their family history, the team analysed ancient DNA from 60 individuals dating to between 2750 and 2500BC. Their findings confirmed the existence of ...

The Forbidden City, located in the centre of Beijing is the supreme model in the development of ancient Chinese palaces, providing insight into the social development of late dynastic China, ...

According to a new study out this week, temples across China — Buddhist and Taoist alike — have safeguarded tens of thousands of ancient trees, acting as accidental arks in a landscape ...

A mentally ill tourist in Xi’an damaged two of China’s iconic terracotta warriors after jumping into a protected excavation pit at the historic site. A domestic tourist damaged two ancient ...

Huang unified ancient China and is regarded as the country’s first emperor. Built to guard the emperor in the afterlife — and as a display of power — the thousands of “soldiers” in the Terracotta Army ...

HONG KONG (AP) — Throngs of people flocked to southern Hong Kong on Saturday to watch the iconic dragon boat races, a highlight of a Chinese festival ... official in ancient times who drowned ...

HONG KONG (AP) — Throngs of people flocked to southern Hong Kong on Saturday to watch the iconic dragon boat races, a highlight of a Chinese festival with over 2,000 years of history.

The 8,000-strong terracotta army once guarded the tomb of the first emperor and is considered a symbol of ancient Chinese artistic and military sophistication.