Despite being a cornerstone of ancient Chinese culture, the art of incense fell out of everyday use as mass production and ...

The art of carving stone stamps, the popularity of egg waffles, a twist on cheongsam – check out these Chinese culture ...

Long before modern observatories and spacecraft, court scribes in ancient China were quietly building one of humanity’s first datasets on the changing sky. Their terse notes on sudden daylight ...

"Some of our ancestors were very skilled observers." A team of international researchers say they've uncovered new data on the world's first recorded solar eclipse using a surprising source — ancient ...

Archaeological evidence shows that the 12 astronomical signs at one point entered China, a journey that would eventually ...

When archaeologists unearthed small cat bones in China dating back some 5,400 years, they figured cats had been hanging out in early Chinese farming settlements since the Neolithic Period. Now, a ...

A 410-million-year-old lungfish fossil from China reveals a key link, offering new insight into how early vertebrates ...

An odd star brightened for more than 70 days in 5 B.C.E., according to a Chinese text. The object may have been a comet that ...