Six centuries ago, a mighty armada of Chinese ships crossed the China Sea, then ventured west to Ceylon, Arabia, and East Africa. The fleet consisted of giant nine-masted junks, escorted by dozens ...

Historian William Dalrymple, speaking at the India Today Conclave, challenged the widely accepted belief that China dominated ancient global trade. He argued that India, not China, was the key trading ...

IN his Conway Memorial Lecture, "Science and Society in Ancient China", delivered on May 12, 1947, Dr. Joseph Needham attempts to sketch a pattern of the organisation of Chinese feudal society and ...

This story appears in the March 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. Technically it’s ancient technology. But now the two-millennia-old principle of the Greek mathematician Archimedes has ...