Ancient plants were capable of producing resin to protect themselves 65 million years earlier than previously thought, study ...

Ancient DNA from China’s vast 4,000-year-old Shimao settlement is revealing how one of East Asia’s earliest complex societies was organized. Researchers found that its people were largely descended ...

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That trend extends beyond Beijing. In Hefei, the capital of East China's Anhui province, the Anhui Museum is hosting an exhibition that places modern space exploration within the much longer tradition ...

Scientists in China have discovered one of the oldest known matrilineal societies—where family lines and inheritance are traced through a community’s women, not its men. Archaeologists unearthed the ...

"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 ...