For more than 600 years, the people of the Tunpu, fortified villages of the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), in Anshun city, Guizhou province, have kept alive customs rooted in a military migration that took ...

The burial mound of Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor of a unified China, is one of the most tantalizing unopened tombs on Earth, yet it remains sealed beneath a forested hill in Shaanxi province.

Archaeologists are terrified to open the tomb of Qin Shi Huang, China's first emperor who has been buried for 2,200 years. The tomb of Qin Shu Huang, who ruled from 221 BC to 210 BC, is guarded by a ...

Brendan Fraser confirms talks for 'The Mummy 4' with Rachel Weisz, calling it the sequel he's 'been waiting 20 years for.' ...

Stone fortress wall from Ming dynasty in China. Credit: Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 2.1 es A six-year archaeological survey in Shaanxi Province, northwest China, has uncovered 573 ancient stone ...

A berry used in traditional folk medicine holds a remarkable power to restore healthy fat metabolism as well as insulin sensitivity in a diabetes model in mice. These tiny red fruit come from a little ...

To study the cultures of the past, historians rely on closely reading old texts. Did the people living along the Yellow River more than 2,000 years ago think they should stick close to their family, ...