Test your knowledge of the Great Wall of China with this quiz! Explore facts about its construction, purpose, length, key ...

Established by Tangut people and inhabited by various ethnic groups, Xixia was not documented in a specific history book by ...

As an ancillary event to the Global Civilizations Dialogue Ministerial Meeting that was concluded on Friday in Beijing, the ...

Located in the southwestern part of Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, Kashgar sits on a lush oasis nourished by the Yarkant River, which flows from the Karakoram Mountains.Since ancient times, traders ...

While Xi'an’s three listed tourism companies—Qujiang Wenlv, Xi'an Tourism, and Xi'an Catering—lost a combined 519 million ...

Qianling, the tomb of the third Tang emperor, Li Zhi, and Empress Wu Zetian, is located on Liangshan Mountain, 6 kilometers north of Qianxian County seat and 80 kilometers from Xi'an. Here also ...

Sightings of the Yangtze finless porpoise inferred from five poems written during the Tang Dynasty, combined with more recent data, represent the animal’s range during that time.

This “Last Dynasty,” as the Egyptologist Toby Wilkinson has termed it, held on—despite frequent infighting, enormous overspending and bitter succession battles—until 30 B.C., when Roman ...

At an ancient Tang Dynasty site in Hebei Province, south of Beijing, archaeologists discovered a rare ceramic sculpture. Siyi via Unsplash Seven years into excavations at a Tang Dynasty site in ...