When archaeologists unearthed small cat bones in China dating back some 5,400 years, they figured cats had been hanging out ...

Ancient Chinese astronomers observed a solar eclipse in 709 BCE with remarkable detail. These old records are now helping ...

The modern house cat reached China in the 8th century. Before that, another cat — the leopard cat — hunted the rodents in ancient Chinese settlements.

A team of international researchers has uncovered fresh data on the world's earliest recorded solar eclipse using ancient ...

Long before modern observatories and spacecraft, court scribes in ancient China were quietly building one of humanity’s first ...

What would a modern-day fitness coach do if he suddenly found himself in ancient China, living as an overweight young man?

The only reason such a detailed eclipse record survives is that ancient Chinese scholars believed unusual celestial phenomena ...

A new genetic study of the ancient Chinese city of Shimao reveals a strictly patrilineal society that practised ...

For at least 1,400 years, poets in China have penned pieces about the Yangtze River’s sights and sounds. Now, scientists are using those artworks to reconstruct an animal’s past. “When we do ...

It's the cosmic equivalent of a forensic cold case, spanning more than two millennia: did an ancient Chinese star map ...

A NASA planetary scientist has proposed what may be the first scientifically sound explanation for the mysterious Star of Bethlehem that guided the three wise men to the infant Jesus over two ...