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

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 ...

But then the archaeologists took a closer look at the amulet from grave 134. The inch-long silver charm held a fragile, broken piece of foil that seemed to have writing on it. The amulet, it turned ...

He says the scale is striking. Within the mausoleum area alone, nearly 3,000 tombs and sacrificial pits have been identified. If 59 pits yielded so many managed wild animals, researchers believe many ...

Liang, a traveler from Beijing, has kept her holiday visit to the Hebei Museum focusing on two priorities. "I come for the ...

Believe it or not, but the intriguing discovery of China's earliest writing was thanks to an unlikely ally—malaria. When the Chancellor of the Imperial Academy, Wang Yirong, contracted malaria, he was ...