Unraided crypts are hard to come by. And yet in 1968, soldiers stumbled upon the imperial family tombs of a Han dynasty prince and princess–fully intact. Their tombs, filled with grave goods ...

When the Han Dynasty princess Dou Wan died some 2,000 years ago, her corpse was encased within 2,160 small plates of solid jade. Carefully strung together with 700 grams’ worth of gold thread ...

In 2019, before the pandemic began, the Ruili border checkpoint saw people pass through 16.7 million times, according to China’s official statistics. Now, however, without people flowing across ...

Archaeologists have discovered a 5,000-year-old jade dragon artifact while excavating a burial mound in northeastern China. The object measures roughly six inches long, four inches wide and one ...

Depicting Taoist deities in a misty landscape, a Qing dynasty lacquer panel inlaid with jade and agate is among thousands of artifacts pulled out of museum storage in China to be restored and, one … ...

The tomb, located in the city of Chifeng in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region in China, is between 5,000 and 5,100 years old, dating to a time when the Hongshan culture flourished in the region.

At a Neolithic site in northern China, archaeologists have unearthed a large jade dragon inside a 5,000-year-old tomb. The dragon was one of more than 100 artifacts that have been discovered in ...

Staff members make preparations for display of the jade phoenix at the Panlongcheng Site Museum in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province, March 30, 2024. The jade phoenix, which has been kept by ...