For this mighty architectural complex, which dates back to 1420 and spans over 720,000 square meters in the heart of the ...

An ancient skull found in China has pushed back the timeline of human evolution by 400,000 years, revealing a new branch in our lineage.

The findings have the potential to resolve the longstanding "Muddle in the Middle" of human evolution, researchers said.

Researchers have virtually reconstructed a crushed and distorted 1 million-year-old human skull discovered in China. The ...

In 1990, an ancient human skull was unearthed in China's Hubei Province that was so badly deformed during fossilization that ...

Digital reconstruction of a partially crushed skull suggests new insight into Homo sapiens’ evolutionary relationship to Denisovans and Neandertals.

Unearthing the mysteries of our planet’s past, ancient maps offer a unique window into the world as it once was, depicting ...

New research indicates that the Gobi Wall, which snakes through Inner Mongolia, was not a purely defensive structure.

From 2070BC to 256BC, the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties paved the way for Chinese society with Taoism, written language, ...

Far in the rolling highlands of north China, a serene basin once held one of mankind’s best survival stories. The Nihewan Basin, a dry semi-arid region filled with ancient lakebeds, has been a bonanza ...