Dubbed "the Confucius" of the eastern region of the lower reaches of the Yangtze River in a Song Dynasty (960-1279) poem, Gu ...

Welcome to the simulation hypothesis, an idea that’s been keeping philosophers up at night since ancient China, when Zhuang ...

Poet-turned-historian Abhay K speaks of Nalanda’s role in shaping today’s education, architecture, and even artificial ...

From a new study clearing an ancient queen’s name to a leap in computing power, here are some highlights from SCMP’s recent science reporting.

Tombs scattered across China, built between the 4,000-year old Xia Dynasty and the modern era, reflect the political and social patterns of Chinese history, according to a study published in PLOS One ...

The earliest documented solar eclipse is recorded in the ancient Chinese text *Shujing*, describing a celestial event where "the Sun and Moon did not meet harmoniously in Fang." Initial scholarly ...

It should come as no surprise that the first recorded use of the number zero, recently discovered to be made as early as the 3rd or 4th century, happened in India. Mathematics on the Indian ...

Scientists from Peking University have uncovered new genetic evidence that sheds light on how prehistoric people in China interacted, migrated, and built their communities. Led by Professors Huang ...

Scientists in China have discovered one of the oldest known matrilineal societies—where family lines and inheritance are traced through a community’s women, not its men. Archaeologists unearthed the ...

Studies of ancient DNA have generally found that societies in Neolithic and Bronze Age Eurasia were organized around the male line. However, investigation of the Fujia archaeological site in eastern ...

In the four decades since its discovery, the Fujia archaeological site in east China’s Shandong province has repeatedly proven fertile ground for researchers. Located in the lower reaches of the ...