One of the earliest recorded eclipses is found in in the Shijing, a collection of ancient poetry whose compilation is also ...

Emperor Qin Shi Huang of the Qin dynasty was the first emperor of ancient China and ruled from 221 B.C. to 210 B.C. He's most ...

Located in Luoyang, one of China's most ancient cities in Central China's Henan Province, the Han-Wei Luoyang Ancient City ...

Known by his personal name, Yuwen Jue, the ancient Chinese ruler was the founding emperor of the Northern Zhou Dynasty. The tomb of Emperor Xiaomin that was uncovered in Xianyang, China.

Emperor Wu was a ruler of the Northern Zhou dynasty in ancient China. Under his reign from AD 560 to AD 578, Emperor Wu built a strong military and unified the northern part of ancient China after ...

More than 200 such artifacts are included in “Anyang: China’s Ancient City of Kings ... name probably not used until the era of the Zhou dynasty, which overcame the Shang and left their ...

Yue, or punitive amputation, was practiced in ancient China beginning in the Xia dynasty (2100 to 1600 B.C.) and was abolished by the Han dynasty in the second century B.C. The Zhou penal code ...

Confucius was a famous Chinese philosopher whose teachings are called Confucianism. He lived from 551 B.C. to 479 B.C., during the Zhou dynasty and a period of great strife in ancient China.

What did an ancient Chinese emperor from 1,500 years ago look like? A team of researchers reconstructed the face of Chinese Emperor Wu of Northern Zhou using DNA extracted from his remains.