Stonehenge continues to fascinate historians and researchers with new theories rethinking its purpose beyond ceremonial use. A fresh idea suggests the stone circle may have served as a blueprint for ...

Emperor Qin Shi Huang of the Qin dynasty was the first emperor of ancient China and ruled from 221 B.C. to 210 B.C. He's most ...

The collapse of a historic structure is not just a loss of bricks and mortar; it’s a loss of history. The recent partial collapse of the Fengyang Drum Tower in Anhui province, China, is a grim ...

A system of ancient ceramic water pipes, the oldest ever unearthed in China, shows that neolithic people were capable of complex engineering feats without the need for a centralized state ...

A masterpiece of engineering and ingenuity ... From its hazy origins in ancient China to its even hazier reinvention in the Middle Ages and all the way to its modern incarnations in the world ...

The Great Wall was built to secure ancient China’s northern borders against ... The findings shed light on advanced engineering of the ancient Chinese to expand the wall to about 30 meters ...

Buddhist temples in China are home to trees from dozens of endangered species, a new study shows. Some of them are almost ...

Primarily, the compass was used for geomancy for a long time before it was used for navigation Ancient Chinese alchemists realized that the magnetite ore would point towards a magnetic north. Their ...