Ancient China began as a group of isolated communities during the Stone Age and eventually grew into a formidable empire.

The Classic of Mountains and Rivers, or Shan Hai Jing, is an ancient Chinese classic encompassing legends, geography, history, astronomy, animals, plants, medicine, religion, anthropology ...

de Rosny of Paris, in a work recently published on the Oriental nations known to the ancient Chinese ... idea of the knowledge of geography possessed by the Chinese in early times.

(See China pictures.) Sticky-Rice Mortar's Secret Recipe ... building's specific mortar formula and mix up a fresh batch to match the ancient recipe.

photo Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Archaeologists working in the ancient city of Caesarea, in present-day Israel, have found a Roman-era marble sarcophagus depicting an ...