Unraided crypts are hard to come by. And yet in 1968, soldiers stumbled upon the imperial family tombs of a Han dynasty ...

This cache is revealing new things about the birth of China. The lacquered head unearthed ... (The eighth wonder of the ancient world may have an untouched tomb.) “The tomb’s structure is ...

How did the the Han dynasty bury their royals? How did the the Han dynasty bury their royals? This ancient marvel rivaled Rome’s intricate network of roads This ancient marvel rivaled Rome’s ...

Twenty-five years ago, National Geographic Explorer Mei Zhang ... (Related: Rediscovering China’s ancient Tea Horse Road, a branch of the famous Silk Road.) Nuodeng, a former Tea Horse Trail ...

High on a mountain in China, Indigenous tea growers are using ... This story appears in the January 2025 issue of National Geographic magazine. Justin Jin, a Hong Kong–born photographer and ...

China already had a long history by the time ... finished by hand so that no two figures looked exactly alike. The ancient army was stationed just east of a necropolis surrounding the tomb of ...

The 8.5-mile-long wall that surrounds Xi’an, touted as one of the best-preserved walled fortifications in China, could be the ... s rich history and to see ancient artifacts, such as the famous ...

Archaeologists are hailing the discovery of an "extraordinary cache" of cannabis found in an ancient burial in northwest China, saying that the unique find adds considerably to our understanding ...

Photographed at Emperor’s College of Traditional Oriental Medicine, Santa Monica, California and National ... China’s Yunnan Province. Cheng is researching herbal treatments based on ancient ...

Photograph by Michael S. Yamashita/National Geographic Stock The Yuen Tsuen Ancient Trail, Hong Kong, China For centuries, people traveled along this rugged footpath between Yuen Long and Tsuen ...