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 ...

For decades, villagers in the dust-blown hills of China’s Loess Plateau believed ... Photograph by Ben Sherlock, National Geographic To protect themselves from violent rivals, the Shimao elites ...

China hopes to become a global leader in protected nature reserves, creating a network of wilderness that would be three ...

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 ...

In southwest China, the ancient teahouses of the Sichuan provincial capital are being reimagined as hipster hangouts where ...

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 ...

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 ... This text is an excerpt from the National Geographic special issue The Most Influential Figures of Ancient History.

Photograph by JED WEINGARTEN, Nat Geo Image Collection While the ancient texts do not show exactly how many of these monkeys once inhabited China ... establishment of national reserves, according ...

The couple’s remains were wrapped in jade burial suits now regarded as some of China’s greatest national treasures ... that the tomb was indeed an ancient burial chamber.

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 ...

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 ...