Guo adds that the symposium will help society better understand the importance of frontier archaeology in fostering a strong ...

Descendants of Chinese miners killed in an infamous massacre in Rock Springs, Wyoming, in 1885 joined archaeologists this ...

The city of Houchengzui in northern China is an archaeological site dating back more than 4,000 years. Back then, it was a heavily armoured place with three concentric defensive walls, turrets, ...

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 ...

This is the third in a series on the past, present, and future of Chinese archaeology. Part one can be found here, and part two here. The origins of modern Chinese archaeology are generally traced to ...

Infrastructure projects in Xi'an routinely unearth ancient tombs. Here, archaeology and urban growth go hand in hand.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...