Long before Western astrology, the Chinese zodiac helped organize years, beliefs, and social life. Here’s how the system of 12 animals evolved over the centuries.

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Ancient Greek coins acted as a version of social media, broadcasting political power and national identity to every level of ...

The seal of Afghanistan's Bank depicts an image from an ancient Greek coin and is overlaid on every banknote of the Central ...

The fossils offer a rare glimpse into a cataclysmic event that brought a sudden end to the greatest explosion of life in our planet's history.

Ancient tools from central China are flipping the script, revealing early humans were far more innovative than history once gave them credit for.

A newly excavated archaeological site in central China is reshaping long-held assumptions about early hominin behavior in ...

China has upgraded the digital Yuan to pay interest, marking a shift in CBDC design with implications for banks, payments, ...

Archaeologists have found the oldest known evidence of hafted tools in East Asia, and they challenge a previously held ...

Among the Mogao Caves' nearly 500 chambers and temples, a space known as Cave 17 revealed thousands of extraordinary objects.

Below the skyscrapers rising up around Beijing lies an ancient secret: tombs from the capital's imperial past. TIME Beijing reporter Mia Turner investigates the latest treasures unearthed by China's ...

Ancient tools from China show early humans made complex, hafted technologies 160,000 years ago, reshaping views of innovation ...