BEIJING: In ancient China, royal families washed elephants to pray for good fortune. Until one elephant went rogue and ...

Ancient Chinese currency from the 14th century in pristine condition throws up a red flag for Rick in this clip from Season 13, Episode 3, "Pawn No Evil." ...

Founded in AD 68 during the Eastern Han Dynasty (25-220), White Horse Temple in Luoyang, Henan Province is China's first ...

The Huns were a nomadic people whose sudden and ferocious arrival in the late 4th century sent shockwaves through the ancient world. Known for their lightning-fast cavalry and relentless raids, they ...

In 2026, AI is changing how historical dramas are produced in China. In the past, dramas featuring ancient battles, palace ...

Zhang Dongni, a solo backpacker traveling overland across the region, made her way from Almaty to Lake Issyk-Kul in Kyrgyzstan. She was heading to Osh, the country's second-largest city, before ...

What if I told you that more than 100,000 Buddhist statues were carved into the cliffs of China over 1,500 years ago?

For more than 2,000 years, Laozi has been celebrated as the legendary founder of Daoism and the supposed author of the Tao Te ...

The best victory is “winning without shedding a drop of blood” is an ancient Chinese proverb attributed to Sun Tzu’s ‘The Art of War,’ written nearly 2,500 years ago. In 2026, that old strategy has a ...

Li Long and his colleagues at the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science were looking at specks of glass from the far side of the Moon when they found iron that, at lunar surface temperatures, normally ...

At the Luoyang Museum in central China's Henan Province, some pottery figurines appear to have come straight from today's ...

A farmer’s accidental discovery in 1920s China led to the Sanxingdui archaeological site, revealing ancient sacrificial pits ...