In recent years, China has made remarkable archaeological discoveries, from the mysterious bronze artifacts of the Sanxingdui Ruins to the magnificent Archaeological Ruins of Liangzhu City. These ...

Beiting ruins in Jimsar county, Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, dates back to the Tang Dynasty (618-907), and has been a focus of archaeological studies on frontier areas. [Photo by Wang ...

OWING to the preoccupation of Chinese antiquarians with literary rather than material evidence, an exceptional interest attaches to an imperial scroll now on exhibition in London, which was painted in ...

On the morning of December 14, China’s State Administration of Cultural Heritage made a stunning announcement: Chinese archaeologists had identified the “Great Tomb of Jiangcun,” near modern-day Xi’an ...

The stones didn’t give up their secrets easily. For decades, villagers in the dust-blown hills of China’s Loess Plateau believed that the crumbling rock walls near their homes were part of the Great ...

The vast but little known north-western Chinese region of Xinjiang has presented a University of Sydney archaeologist with exciting new evidence of early contact between China and the West. The ...

The national archaeological work meeting kicks off in Chengdu, Sichuan province, on Thursday. [Photo by Wang Ru/chinadaily.com.cn] The national archaeological work meeting opened in Chengdu, Sichuan ...

To the two Chinese tomb robbers who found it beneath a pile of rotting planks in 1934, the ragged piece of silk bearing strange, barely discernible characters and drawings looked like nothing more ...

Chinese archaeology : past, present, and future -- Environment and ecology -- Foragers and collectors in the Pleistocene-Holocene transition (24,000-9000 cal. BP) -- Domestication of plants and ...

Part I: Current Issues in Chinese Archaeology. Introduction: Investigating the Development and Nature of Complex Societies in Ancient China / Anne P. Underhill ; "Despoiled of the Garments of Her ...

As a highly regarded academic subject in Chinese archaeology, on December 24, Erlitou Site Museum of the Xia Capital announced the upcoming launch of the exhibition "Rediscovering The Xia Culture – Ne ...