I t’s not hard to see why China’s life-size terracotta army might earn the unofficial moniker “eighth wonder of the world”.

The parts of the manuscript returning to China are Wuxing Ling and Gongshou Zhan, known by scholars as Volumes II and III.

Dating back 5,200 to 5,800 years, the Lingjiatan site in Hanshan county, Ma'anshan, Anhui province, a late Neolithic ...

Unraided crypts are hard to come by. And yet in 1968, soldiers stumbled upon the imperial family tombs of a Han dynasty ...

Both ancient human species showed signs of simultaneously using their hands to move around – such as by climbing trees – as ...

Cameron Anderson follows a well-trod adage from metal detectorists: “If in doubt, dig it out,” he told the BBC. That ...