This is the third in a series on the past, present, and future of Chinese archaeology. Part one can be found here, and part two here. The origins of modern Chinese archaeology are generally traced to ...

On the morning of December 14, China’s State Administration of Cultural Heritage made a stunning announcement: Chinese archaeologists had identified the “Great Tomb of Jiangcun,” near modern-day Xi’an ...

To the two Chinese tomb robbers who found it beneath a pile of rotting planks in 1934, the ragged piece of silk bearing strange, barely discernible characters and drawings looked like nothing more ...

Part I: Current Issues in Chinese Archaeology. Introduction: Investigating the Development and Nature of Complex Societies in Ancient China / Anne P. Underhill ; "Despoiled of the Garments of Her ...

Have you ever wondered why Chinese visual culture is full of images of dragons, phoenixes and other mythical creatures? Archaeologists certainly have. For centuries, they searched in vain for their ...

A tomb dating back 5,000 years, which archaeologists believe may belong an early Chinese king, has been discovered in central China. The grave of what archaeologists believe may be the king of a ...

Charting a New Course for Chinese Diaspora Archaeology in North America / J. Ryan Kennedy and Chelsea Rose -- Reframing Overseas Chinese Archaeology as Archaeology of the Chinese Diaspora / Douglas E.

A gold hair ornament unearthed from the tomb of Ma Sanniang, wife of Dong Shunxian, a military officer in the Tang Dynasty (618-907), in Xi'an, Northwest China's Shaanxi province.[Photo/Xinhua] In a ...

From the mid-second century b.c. to the late first century a.d., the armies of China’s Han Dynasty (206 b.c.–a.d. 220) defended their territory against the marauding forces of the Xiongnu Empire, a ...

In the sparse Utah desert, the vital contributions of these 19th-century laborers are finally coming to light A wooden trestle bridge near Terrace, Utah. The state has more intact miles of original ...

Under Xi Jinping, archaeology has become yet another domain through which the Chinese government has increasingly sought to expand its geopolitical influence. Evidence—whether objective or ...

A significant archaeological breakthrough has emerged from Mit Rahina in Giza, the site of ancient Memphis in Egypt, where a joint Chinese-Egyptian mission has uncovered a limestone structure believed ...