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Scientists confirm a Bronze Age iron artifact from Sanxingdui was made from extraterrestrial material, revealing ancient Chinese practices.

Inscriptions carved into animal bones more than 3,000 years ago by Shang dynasty diviners contain direct evidence of ...

Combining the writing on the bones with paleoclimate reconstructions, the team found how typhoon activity helped shift the ...

Shang says the burial assemblage of this kind reflects a funerary tradition rooted in the ritual system of the Zhou Dynasty ...

Warmer waters in the Pacific Ocean may have brought devastating floods to the cradle of ancient Chinese civilization, ...

Throughout history, humans have created myths and legends to make sense of the world around them. Most of the time, that’s ...

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Today, we can order food from apps and enjoy it at home, thanks to smartphones and e-payments. But long before modern vehicles and technology, ancient China had already developed a rough version of ...

Some civilizations in inland China underwent dramatic changes and population drops 3,000 years ago. Now, researchers are using oracle bones, archaeological evidence and climate modeling to find out ...

Ritual grain server (yu) with masks (taotie), dragons, and cicadas. Inscribed on the bottom of the interior, Yi Che 亦車 (“Yi-Chariot”). Collection of the ...

This photo taken on March 23, 2023 shows a ditch of the water system in the ruins of a city from the Shang Dynasty (1600-1046 BC) in Zhengzhou, capital of Central China's Henan province. [Photo/Henan ...