shedding light on the cultural complexities and historical context of ancient China. The facial reconstruction of Emperor Wu, an ancient Chinese ruler of the Northern Zhou dynasty. (Image credit ...

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 ...

Emperor Wu was credited with unifying northern China ... like this delivered to your inbox. "Previously, people had to rely on historical records or murals to picture what ancient people looked ...

Ancient DNA recovered from the remains ... dark ages has shed some light on what the leader may have looked like. Emperor Wu ruled China as part of the Northern Zhou dynasty from 560 to 580 ...

Ancient Chinese civilization not only invented papermaking and the compass, but also the decimal system, rockets and variolation, China's top science academy said Thursday. Chinese Academy of ...