Nearly 1,000 pieces of treasure — including copper coins and ornate pottery from the Ming Dynasty — were recovered from a pair of ancient shipwrecks discovered in the South China Sea, officials said ...

Ancient Artifacts That Prove The Past Was More Advanced: 25 Ancient Myths That Archaeologists Want You to Forget: A golden-coated eye from Irans Burnt City. A clay cylinder some say was the first bill ...

Tombs scattered across China, built between the 4,000-year old Xia Dynasty and the modern era, reflect the political and social patterns of Chinese history, according to a study published in PLOS One ...

Ancient China began as a group of isolated communities during the Stone Age and eventually grew into a formidable empire. Ancient Chinese people developed their own writing system and several famous ...