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More than 3,000 years ago, this was the heart of the Shang Dynasty(c.16th to 11th century BC). A great capital stood here, ...
The Yinxu Ruins in Anyang, Henan province, which one expert described as the "brightest star" of Chinese archaeology, connect the early stage of China as a nation around 3,300 years ago to the modern ...
Oracle bone inscriptions displayed at the new hall of the Yinxu Museum in Anyang, Henan province. [Photo/Xinhua] ZHENGZHOU — ...
The Euphrates River is the longest river in Western Asia and runs through the eastern side of the Fertile Crescent. Flowing over 1,700 miles from Turkey through Syria and Iraq, the river played a ...
Flooding in the middle Yangtze river valley 4000 years ago, recorded by stalagmite calcium isotopes, coincides with the decline of the post-Shijiahe culture, highlighting that water-excess can be as ...
According to Fang Qin, director of the Hubei Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, Shijiahe was the largest prehistoric urban center and the most densely populated settlement ...