Ultimately, these 573 fortresses redefine what we know about northern China’s prehistory. Long before the first emperors ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A tomb dating back 5,000 years, which archaeologists believe may belong an early Chinese king, has been discovered in central China. The grave of what archaeologists believe may be the king of a ...

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 ...

Have you ever wondered why Chinese visual culture is full of images of dragons, phoenixes and other mythical creatures? Archaeologists certainly have. For centuries, they searched in vain for their ...

While excavating the tomb of an ancient Chinese emperor, archaeologists unearthed the skeleton of a giant panda, officials said. The skeleton, which was in good condition, dates back around 2,000 ...

BEIJING — When Chinese archaeologists start work on a buried Bronze Age city in north India this fall, they will be breaking ground in more ways than one. The dig at Rakhigarhi, 90 miles north west of ...

Dusk falls on Front Street in downtown Santa Cruz as concrete wizard Tom Ralston, mosaic Maestra Kathleen Crocetti and foundry phantasmic Sean Monaghan’s bold and colorful collaborative Chinese arch ...