Archaeologists in China have discovered a unique burial of a woman whose teeth had been painted with cinnabar, with a toxic ...

China's first pet cats arrived in the country around 1,400 years ago — likely via the famous Silk Road trading route, ancient feline DNA reveals. This new research — hailed as a "knockout study" — ...

Domestic cats first stepped paw in China more than a millennia ago, a new study has found. Their route in? Quite likely, the ...

Waves of Fortune: China's Maritime Silk Road is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Fire ...

BEIJING, March 12, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Quanzhou, a historic coastal city in southeast China's Fujian Province, saw robust ...

Farmers are busy pollinating cherry blossoms in the cherry greenhouses of Qicun Town, Shizhong District in Zaozhuang City, east China's Shandong Province, paving the way for a bumper harvest this year ...

But scientists have long wondered when and how feline friends arrived in China—where they’re currently ... assets that traveled east on the famous Silk Road, the lengthy trading network ...

How and when domestic cats arrived in China has been a mystery. A new analysis of cat DNA suggests traders and diplomats likely carried the pets with them along the Silk Road 1,400 years ago.