Old beliefs about early human behavior in East Asia are being challenged by the discovery of a richly-layered archaeological ...

Archaeologists in central China have uncovered evidence that early humans were far more inventive than long assumed. Excavations at the Xigou site reveal advanced stone tools, including the earliest ...

For at least 1,400 years, poets in China have penned pieces about the Yangtze River’s sights and sounds. Now, scientists are using those artworks to reconstruct an animal’s past. “When we do ...

The most famous example of such exquisitely preserved Cambrian fossils is the Burgess Shale of Canada.

"In 1997-98 the State Cultural Relics Bureau entrusted the National Museum of Chinese History to sponsor an exhibition on artefects of ancient Chinese science and technology and compile this catalogue ...