Height: 1120 meters, Type: Stratovolcanoes, Status: Pleistocene-Fumarolic. The Tatun (Datun) volcano group consists p...

Height: 401 meters, Type: Stratovolcano, Status: Pleistocene-Fumarolic. Kueishantao Island, whose summit is 401 m abo...

The sacred Mount Tai (`shan` means `mountain`) was the object of an imperial cult for nearly 2,000 years, and the art...

In c. 220 B.C., under Qin Shi Huang, sections of earlier fortifications were joined together to form a united defence...

Seat of supreme power for over five centuries (1416-1911), the Forbidden City in Beijing, with its landscaped gardens...

Situated at a strategic point along the Silk Route, at the crossroads of trade as well as religious, cultural and int...

No doubt thousands of statues still remain to be unearthed at this archaeological site, which was not discovered unti...

Scientific work at the site, which lies 42 km south-west of Beijing, is still underway. So far, it has led to the dis...