"There are some of the earliest city plans for the city ... Sports and Tourism Bureau. Shexian's ancient walls, together with 13 other ancient walls in China, have been placed under a project ...

Legend has it that in the Ming Dynasty, this area housed barrel-makers employed by Shen Wansan, Jiangnan's richest merchant.

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The buried roots and stumps of an ancient forest in southern China are the charred remains of an ancient war and the burning ...

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The Italian Space Agency has picked European company Blue Skies Space to build a fleet of satellites around the moon to map the ancient universe. These radio signals are hard to detect on Earth ...

A Myanmar ethnic minority armed group is preparing to hand a captured city back to the military in a Beijing-brokered deal, China's foreign ministry said Tuesday, as residents reported junta ...