Among the highlights is a new book, The Past Decade of Chinese Archaeology (2016-26), compiled by institute researchers. The ...

Carnelian beads found at Sanxingdui reveal long-distance trade links across ancient China during the Bronze Age, researchers ...

Tucked in the mountains of southeastern China sit the ruins of a large-scale manufacturing site. The centuries-old furnaces that once made iconic pottery now lie crumbling and abandoned. The ruins of ...

This ‘Secrets of the Dead’ installment focuses on the 1986 discovery of a trove of buried artifacts with still-murky ...

To mitigate this danger, Ming Dynasty physicians developed elaborate pharmaceutical recipes to process the raw tuberous roots. Historical texts indicate that these toxic plants were boiled in vinegar, ...

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 ...

There is a field in Anyang, Henan Province, in central China, that archaeologists have been digging carefully for nearly a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In a cemetery in central China, a grave robber started to dig. The thief tunneled into an ancient tomb, stole some artifacts and ...

In the desert outside Kashgar, an oasis city in the far-western region of Xinjiang, an ancient Buddhist stupa rises out of the sand. Because of its conical shape, it is known as Mo’er, the word for ...

1. The geographic and environmental background -- 2. Before cultivation : human origins and the incipient development of human culture in China -- 3. The transition to food production : variability ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tucked in the mountains of southeastern China sit the ruins of a large-scale manufacturing site. The centuries-old furnaces that ...

Archaeologists in Shanxi found a 2,400-year-old tomb looted by a grave robber with rare musical instruments and artifacts still inside, photos show. Photo from CCTV News, the Institute of Archaeology ...