High on Jingmai Mountain, Indigenous tea growers are holding fast to ancient techniques and creating a premium tea that has ...

From deciphering burnt Roman scrolls to reading crumbling cuneiform tablets, neural networks could give researchers more data ...

History has long celebrated its ancient world pioneers, yet many great deeds of overlooked figures have faded with their names.

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STANFORD, Calif. — History’s earliest known happy hour might have taken place in China’s Lower Yangzi River valley some 10,000 years ago. Scientists have uncovered evidence of an ancient brewing ...

but the ancient Egyptians went one step further: They looked to felines as symbols of divinity. To honor this history, the Shanghai Museum in China has been hosting “Meowseum Nights,” during ...

Events during one period in Chinese history indicate that for many, dying for honour was far more desirable than living a ...

Archaeologists in central China have identified an enormous tomb that may have belonged to a prehistoric king, or someone ...

It has greatly trimmed ancient Chinese history inside history textbooks, teaching the history of China in the broader context of East Asia rather than singling it out. Ou Kui-chih, a Chinese ...

Irish farmer Micheál Boyle was digging a drain in a bog on his property when he noticed something that "didn't look natural" ...

The findings – from a Shangshan archaeological site in Pujiang county, part of ancient China’s Lower Yangtze region – mark “the earliest known alcohol fermentation technique in East Asia ...