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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The middle Yangtze River valley of China was home to 20 or so Neolithic earthen walled towns dated between 6000 and 4200 cal BP, which is very rare in East Asia. Many scholars consider these walled ...

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.

A gold hair ornament unearthed from the tomb of Ma Sanniang, wife of Dong Shunxian, a military officer in the Tang Dynasty (618-907), in Xi'an, Northwest China's Shaanxi province.[Photo/Xinhua] In a ...

THE advance of archaeological study is one of the most remarkable cultural achievements of the Chinese since the advent of the Communist regime in 1949. It has not been merely a matter of impressive ...

From the mid-second century b.c. to the late first century a.d., the armies of China’s Han Dynasty (206 b.c.–a.d. 220) defended their territory against the marauding forces of the Xiongnu Empire, a ...

A significant archaeological breakthrough has emerged from Mit Rahina in Giza, the site of ancient Memphis in Egypt, where a joint Chinese-Egyptian mission has uncovered a limestone structure believed ...