Many of the stars and star groupings we find in our nighttime sky have names and stories that originated in olden times. Most that we know of today come from ancient Arabic, Greek or Roman cultures, ...

Archaeologists working at a Bronze Age cemetery in northwest China have uncovered pottery vessels containing residue that reveals a sophisticated brewing technique dating back nearly 4,000 years. The ...

Ancient China began as a group of isolated communities during the Stone Age and eventually grew into a formidable empire. Ancient Chinese people developed their own writing system and several famous ...