Some civilizations in inland China underwent dramatic changes and population drops 3,000 years ago. Now, researchers are ...

Evidence suggests that China's "cradle of civilization" experienced marked climate disasters and social upheavals during the ...

ANYANG, China, Nov. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- It all starts with the Yinxu Ruins, home to the remains of wooden structures, a palace and royal tombs, as well as smaller objects such as bronze ritual ...

While dating back 3,000 years, no one recognized how special the oracle bones of the Shang Dynasty were until 1899. Yet the antiquarian who first perceived the value of the artifacts, etched with ...

Including an oracle bone bearing an inscription related to King Wen of Zhou, several new discoveries made at the Zhouyuan site in Baoji, Northwest China's Shaanxi Province, have recently been revealed ...

A new digital archive is making thousands of mysterious ancient Chinese emblematic symbols accessible to anyone with an internet connection. Yuwei Zhou, a PhD candidate in the Department of East Asian ...

Ancient artifacts offer some of the earliest insight we have into events such as lunar eclipses of the distant past, but for the most part, only experts have access to them. Thanks to 3D printing, ...