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 ...

A new study is piecing together the life and afterlife of the Xiaohe culture, an ancient Chinese civilization.

During the Song Dynasty (960-1279), a scholar named Li Kan commissioned the construction of Zhongshu Bridge in today's Wuyuan ...

Ancient China began as a group of isolated communities during the Stone Age and eventually grew into a formidable empire. Ancient Chinese people developed their own writing system and several ...

Religious temples across China shelter thousands of ancient trees, including species extinct in the wild.

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 mentally ill tourist in Xi’an damaged two of China’s iconic terracotta warriors after jumping into a protected excavation pit at the historic site. A domestic tourist damaged two ancient ...

An extraordinary discovery of a Roman pot was made at the Drumanagh promontory fort in Ireland, the first ever found. The unbelievable apparition of a Roman pot at Drumanagh in County Dublin left ...

So, despite having been extinct for 66 million years, the pterosaurs have huge potential as the inspiration for aircraft ...