A team of archaeologists in China has uncovered a 2,246-year-old stone inscription on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. The archaeological discovery sheds light on a previously unknown chapter of Chinese ...

Humans have been trying to cheat death for thousands of years. Myths about elixirs promising immortality span various cultures, as do real concoctions that often did more harm than good. One of the ...

The man who first unified China in 221 BCE was so determined to live forever that he commanded a group of alchemists to venture to a mythical mountain in search of the source of eternal youth.