Inscriptions carved into animal bones more than 3,000 years ago by Shang dynasty diviners contain direct evidence of ...
Warmer waters in the Pacific Ocean may have brought devastating floods to the cradle of ancient Chinese civilization, ...
The chance rediscovery of the ancient Chinese Sanxingdui civilization is legendary in and of itself. In 1929, an unsuspecting peasant in Sichuan province stumbled upon a cache of jade relics while ...
Archaeologists have unearthed the remains of a 4,000-year-old palace in an ancient Chinese walled city. Researchers uncovered the structure at the important archaeological site of Xinmi, Henan ...
What did an ancient Chinese emperor from 1,500 years ago look like? A team of researchers reconstructed the face of Chinese Emperor Wu of Northern Zhou using DNA extracted from his remains. The study ...
When workers in northern China cut into a hillside for a new road, they did not expect to open a window onto a world where a fair-haired foreigner shared space with Tang dynasty nobles. Yet that is ...