Archaeologists have discovered the ruins of an ancient palace that served as the summer retreat for the elite members of the Liao Dynasty. To escape the oppressive heat, each year from mid-April to ...

K UALA LUMPUR: For Kenny Tan, collecting ancient Chinese artifacts has been more than a hobby: it has been a passion lasting ...

Chinese history is replete with the rise and fall of dynasties, but researchers now have identified a natural phenomenon that may have been the last straw for some of them: a weakening of the summer ...

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 ...

A new study has uncovered a direct genetic link between ancient practitioners of the Hanging Coffin burial tradition and the ...

A Jin Dynasty (1115-1234) bronze mirror was recently unearthed during a shantytown redevelopment project in Fenyang, North China's Shanxi Province. Its inscriptions shed light on how the dynasty ...

From legacy of China’s Qing dynasty to Hong Kong romance films that pushed boundaries, here are seven stories from SCMP’s ...

Photo/Hunan Provincial Museum] As the scorching days of summer descend upon China, modern people tend to embrace clothing ...