The artifact, a songbird on a pedestal, appears to be about 13,500 years old. This is an Inside Science story. An ancient bird statuette recovered from a refuse heap is the oldest known figurine ...

At the archaeological site of Sanxingdui in Sichuan, China, a trove of items was found in a series of sacrificial pits that shed light on the secrets of an ancient Chinese civilization. The discovery ...

Chinese researchers have uncovered a jade dragon artifact inside a 5,000-year-old tomb. Archaeologists have uncovered over 100 jade artifacts in the ancient tomb belonging to a major Neolithic culture ...

Silk manuscripts dating back about 2,300 years have been returned to China, 79 years after they were smuggled out of the country, with their return resulting from cooperation between Chinese and U.S.

Two volumes of an ancient Chinese silk manuscript, which had been illegally taken overseas 79 years ago, have finally ...

Two volumes of Chinese silk manuscripts dating back about 2,300 years have been returned to central China's Hunan Province, ...