2002-05-12 04:00:00 PDT Anyang, China-- Buried deep beneath the wheat fields and factories of this fading industrial city are untold numbers of ancient relics -- royal tombs, decorative bronze vessels ...

During the last centuries of China’s Shang dynasty, which lasted from 1600 B.C. to 1050 B.C., ritual sacrifice was a well-oiled cultural phenomenon, rich and varied in its manifestations. Rulers and ...

Many cultural relics of the Shang Dynasty are unearthed in the Huangpu district of Guangzhou. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn] The discovery of the relics has not only helped fill gaps in Shang ...

Life was short and sometimes brutal for many of the dogs of China's Shang Dynasty. New research shows that most of the canines sacrificed during this Bronze Age were just puppies, with some of them ...

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 ...

Feng Shi confirmed that inscriptions on ceramic stands from Liulinxi are the earliest known Chinese characters, appearing in groups rather than alone, making them easier to interpret.

Liquid found inside an ancient bronze vessel has been confirmed to be distilled spirit, pushing back the history of this type of alcohol in China to more than 3,000 years ago, according to the Jinan ...

What is now China was inhabited by Homo erectus more than a million years ago. Recent study shows that the stone tools found at Xiaochangliang site are magnetostratigraphically dated 1.36 million ...