Breakthrough by woman pioneer led to jail, execution for son who agreed with her decision to dissect her dead husband.

A joint archaeological project between Greece’s culture ministry and a Chinese team of researchers is breaking new ground.

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A centuries-old Chinese medicinal root is getting new scientific attention as a potential game-changer for common hair loss. Polygonum multiflorum, long believed to restore dark, healthy hair, appears ...

Scientists in China have discovered one of the oldest known matrilineal societies—where family lines and inheritance are traced through a community’s women, not its men. Archaeologists unearthed the ...

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 famous ...