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.

Researchers used sophisticated scanning and digital reconstruction techniques to determine the original shape of the skull, which is between 940,000 and 1.1 million years old.

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 ...

The activities of the Chinese people in the South China Sea date back over 2,000 years. China is the first to have discovered, named, explored, and utilized the maritime resources on and around Nansha ...

The gap between fantasy and reality has narrowed dramatically when it comes to what we know of China’s tyrannical first emperor, Qin Shi Huang.

But the gap between fantasy and reality has narrowed dramatically when it comes to what we know of China’s tyrannical first emperor, Qin Shi Huang. Evidence is mounting that a 15-tonne casket pulled ...

The lion may have been brought from China in the mid-1260s and modified in Venice between 1270 and 1290. Wolfgang Moroder via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 3.0 For hundreds of years, an iconic ...

China’s latest nature reserve is a rock in the middle of one of the world’s most contested waterways. On Wednesday, the Chinese government approved a proposal to establish a national nature reserve at ...

Earlier this week, China showed a power flex with its largest-ever military parade, proudly displaying a triad of nuclear weapons as if they were entries in an engineering expo. The display came on ...

Venice’s famous bronze statue of a winged lion, which stands atop a pedestal in St. Mark’s Square, took an intercontinental trip to Italy. This symbol of medieval Venetian statehood started out as a ...

This article appeared in History of War magazine issue 151. On 2 September 1945, Japanese forces officially surrendered to the Republic of China, ending the brutal occupation which began in 1937.

4K walking tour inside a modern shopping mall in China featuring vertical gardens, unique architecture, and a refreshing urban design Combat footage captured the explosive destruction of a Russian ...