For more than two thousand years, people have mapped the stars. But a new study claims one of the world’s oldest surviving ...

In the study, the team systematically dug through preserved poems dating back to the year 618 CE and found hundreds of ...

This piece is part of a series of articles covering the medieval and early modern great powers of each of Asia’s regions: ...

A 2018 reconstruction project of a hillside road in the capital of the Shanxi Province led to unearthing the tomb, but ...

For centuries, the Yangtze porpoise was a common sight on the river it is named after. Now, the freshwater mammal is ...

"Today, a British and Chinese person might share tea or coffee, which reflects the blending of civilizations," he says. "But ...

They found that the sharpest habitat-range decrease occurred over the past century—between the Qing dynasty and modern times. They also observed that the porpoise's range throughout the main part of ...

They found that the ancient star chart actually dates to 355 B.C. — 250 years earlier than previously thought — and that it ...

Shi Shen's Star Catalogue, also called the Star Manual of Master Shi, was deduced to be the world's oldest by scientists ...

The porpoise is critically endangered. Ancient Chinese poems reveal the animal’s range has dropped about 65 percent over the past 1,400 years.

She rose to power during the Tang Dynasty (618-907), a golden era in Chinese history noted for its cultural brilliance, military strength, and exceptional openness. The Tang empire's military prowess ...

Analyzing ancient Chinese poetry allowed researchers to understand where humans went wrong in protecting the now critically endangered Yangtze finless porpoise.