The presence of the warm, reddish-orange mineral in the Bronze Age archaeological site of Sanxingdui has long puzzled archaeologists.
Archaeologist Liu Rui from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences couldn't believe what his excavation team found last summer ...
Old beliefs about early human behavior in East Asia are being challenged by the discovery of a richly-layered archaeological ...
What Jesus’ death means for how I make sense of my culture’s traditional religious practices. If you ever visit the Temple of Heaven in Beijing—ancient China’s largest center for high-level ...
The record reveals dramatic swings. Three dry intervals brought less than 700 millimeters of rain per year, while two wet ...
A close-up of a smiling Yangtze finless porpoise at the Baiji Dolphinarium of the Institute of Hydrobiology. (Wang Chaoqun/Chinese Academy of Sciences) (CN) — The ever-smiling Yangtze finless porpoise ...
While two of the tombs were robbed, one was left untouched, and it contained a box full of glazed pottery, among other goods. Chinese Academy of Social Science’s Institute of Archaeology ...