The activities of the Chinese people in the South China Sea date back over 2,000 years. China is the first to have discovered ...

Infrastructure projects in Xi'an routinely unearth ancient tombs. Here, archaeology and urban growth go hand in hand.

According to Jiang Lu, an associate professor at Zhejiang University, the dig revealed three major cultural layers — deposits ...

Guests watch ancient Chinese artifacts returning to China during an ancient Chinese artifacts returning ceremony in Washington D.C., capital of the United States, March 11, 2011. From left to right ...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced on Tuesday that it's hosting in the coming April a major exhibition on ancient Chinese artifacts and art works dating back nearly 2,000 years. The exhibition, ...

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The tombs also bore human skeletons and artifacts including a type of angular harp used in ancient funerals and sacrificial ceremonies. The researchers used a method called gas chromatography-mass ...