The discovery’s highlight was a 247-pound cannon from the Ming dynasty, but archaeologists also found remains of crops and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Charting a New Course for Chinese Diaspora Archaeology in North America / J. Ryan Kennedy and Chelsea Rose -- Reframing Overseas Chinese Archaeology as Archaeology of the Chinese Diaspora / Douglas E.

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 ...