A new archaeological research ­center dedicated to China's Xia (c.2070BC-c.1600BC) and Shang (c.1600BC-1046BC) dynasties will be set up in Luoyang, Central China's Henan Province, according to the ...

Chinese archaeologists recently found a large-scale building foundation in Erlitou Ruins of Yanshi, central China's Henan Province, which belongs to the later period of Xia Dynasty. The discovery, the ...

The English version of A Tangut Course, a book that systemically introduces the history and culture of China's Western Xia Dynasty (1038-1227), has become the first book about the dynasty to be ...

Does a major new archaeological discovery extend recorded Chinese history back a few thousand years? According to an article published yesterday (Aug. 4) in Science magazine, a team of archaeologists ...

Researchers have provided geological evidence for China's 'Great Flood,' a disastrous event on the Yellow River from which the Xia dynasty is thought to have been born. The flood occurred in roughly ...

The findings show that China's porcelain 'dual formula' technology can be traced back to the earlier Western Xia Dynasty. Recent excavations at the Suyukou site in northwest China's Ningxia Hui ...

Two years of archaeological research at the Xinzhai Ruins of Xinmi City, in central China's Henan Province, has borne fruit. Scientists have basically confirmed this was a large city with three moats ...

A deluge on the Yellow River 4,000 years ago led to a feat of Bronze Age hydro-engineering. Ancient Chinese legends tell of a catastrophic flood along the Yellow River that led to the founding of the ...

Chinese imperial food dates back to slave society. Ever since there were emperors and palaces, there has been imperial food, which was served mainly to the emperors, their wives and concubines, and ...