Museum showcases Shanxi's ancient heritage
3 months, 4 weeks ago

Museum showcases Shanxi's ancient heritage

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Sculptures representing a scene of ancient people making utensils are displayed at the Taosi Site Museum. A museum collecting and exhibiting cultural relics representing one of the greatest archaeological discoveries over the past decades in China opened earlier this month in the Shanxi county of Xiangfen, offering visitors and researchers an opportunity to decipher information relating to the formation of Chinese civilization. The Taosi Site Museum, which opened to the public on Nov 11, was built near the Taosi relics site — located in the village of Taosi in Xiangfen. Judging from the relics discovered, researchers believe the site was most likely the ruins of the capital city during the period of Yao — a sage emperor dating back more than 4,100 years and one of the founding fathers of the Chinese nation. Over the past decades, more than 5,500 pieces or sets of cultural relics have been unearthed at the Taosi site, giving researchers adequate material evidence to understand how the earliest Chinese society and nation were formed.

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New archaeological discoveries at Shanxi's Baliping site
3 months, 2 weeks ago

New archaeological discoveries at Shanxi's Baliping site

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The Shanxi Provincial Institute of Archaeology revealed new findings on Dec 5 from the Baliping site in Qinshui county, Jincheng city, North China's Shanxi province. It identifies the site as the largest known late Neolithic site in the southeastern Shanxi region and as a pivotal hub for cultural interactions and exchanges. Given that the Baliping site is located 90 kilometers …

Museum showcases Shanxi's ancient heritage
3 months, 4 weeks ago

Museum showcases Shanxi's ancient heritage

China Daily  

Sculptures representing a scene of ancient people making utensils are displayed at the Taosi Site Museum. A museum collecting and exhibiting cultural relics representing one of the greatest archaeological discoveries over the past decades in China opened earlier this month in the Shanxi county of Xiangfen, offering visitors and researchers an opportunity to decipher information relating to the formation of …

Museum showcases Shanxi's ancient heritage
3 months, 4 weeks ago

Museum showcases Shanxi's ancient heritage

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A bronze bell, a colored pottery vessel and a flat pottery kettle with red-inked inscriptions are on display at Taosi Site Museum. The sand table shows that the ruins of the city include foundations of palace buildings spreading 6,500 sq m, the largest prehistoric rammed-earth structure ever found. In the museum's ritual and music section, restored scenes of ancient banquets, …

Museum showcases Shanxi's ancient heritage
3 months, 4 weeks ago

Museum showcases Shanxi's ancient heritage

China Daily  

Sculptures representing a scene of ancient people making utensils are displayed at the Taosi Site Museum. A museum collecting and exhibiting cultural relics representing one of the greatest archaeological discoveries over the past decades in China opened earlier this month in the Shanxi county of Xiangfen, offering visitors and researchers an opportunity to decipher information relating to the formation of …

Museum showcases Shanxi's ancient heritage
3 months, 4 weeks ago

Museum showcases Shanxi's ancient heritage

China Daily  

Sculptures representing a scene of ancient people making utensils are displayed at the Taosi Site Museum. A museum collecting and exhibiting cultural relics representing one of the greatest archaeological discoveries over the past decades in China opened earlier this month in the Shanxi county of Xiangfen, offering visitors and researchers an opportunity to decipher information relating to the formation of …

New museum highlights timekeeping Taosi culture
4 months, 2 weeks ago

New museum highlights timekeeping Taosi culture

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A visitor looks at an exhibit in the Taosi Site Museum in Linfen in Shanxi province, Nov 12, 2024. Evidence of such is now on display at the Taosi Site Museum in Linfen in North China's Shanxi province. A total of 230 cultural relic items or sets of items in the museum, including pottery, jade, bone, bronze ware and lacquerware, …

New museum highlights timekeeping Taosi culture
4 months, 2 weeks ago

New museum highlights timekeeping Taosi culture

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A visitor looks at an exhibit in the Taosi Site Museum in Linfen in Shanxi province, Nov 12, 2024. Evidence of such is now on display at the Taosi Site Museum in Linfen in North China's Shanxi province. A total of 230 cultural relic items or sets of items in the museum, including pottery, jade, bone, bronze ware and lacquerware, …

Shanxi Taosi Site Museum to open Nov 12
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Shanxi Taosi Site Museum to open Nov 12

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The National Cultural Heritage Administration held a press conference in Beijing on Nov 6 to announce the official opening of the Taosi Site Museum in North China's Shanxi province on Nov 12. Located at the Taosi National Archaeological Park entrance in Xiangfen county, Linfen city, the museum covers nearly 10,000 square meters with exhibition halls spanning around 5,000 sq m. …

China unveils new archaeological discoveries of Neolithic, Xia sites
6 months, 1 week ago

China unveils new archaeological discoveries of Neolithic, Xia sites

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BEIJING -- China on Friday unveiled three important archaeological discoveries of ruins from both the prehistoric age and the Xia Dynasty. A settlement site discovered in Zhejiang is from the early to middle period of the Neolithic Age, dating back to approximately 9,300 to 8,000 years ago. The site discovered in Jiangsu, dating back to about 7,200 to 6,900 years …

China unveils new archaeological discoveries of Neolithic, Xia sites
6 months, 2 weeks ago

China unveils new archaeological discoveries of Neolithic, Xia sites

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BEIJING -- China on Friday unveiled three important archaeological discoveries of ruins from both the prehistoric age and the Xia Dynasty. A settlement site discovered in Zhejiang is from the early to middle period of the Neolithic Age, dating back to approximately 9,300 to 8,000 years ago. The site discovered in Jiangsu, dating back to about 7,200 to 6,900 years …

Ancient city site to get dedicated museum
7 months, 2 weeks ago

Ancient city site to get dedicated museum

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Ancient city site to get dedicated museum.CAO YANG/XINHUA TAIYUAN — A new museum is set to open at the 4,300-year-old Taosi relics site in North China. "The discovery of walled city ruins and important buildings at Taosi represents a significant breakthrough," says Wang Wei, chief expert in charge of the project tracing the origins of Chinese civilization. "The main building …

Ancient city site to get dedicated museum
7 months, 2 weeks ago

Ancient city site to get dedicated museum

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Ancient city site to get dedicated museum.CAO YANG/XINHUA TAIYUAN — A new museum is set to open at the 4,300-year-old Taosi relics site in North China. "The discovery of walled city ruins and important buildings at Taosi represents a significant breakthrough," says Wang Wei, chief expert in charge of the project tracing the origins of Chinese civilization. "The main building …

Ancient city site to get dedicated museum
7 months, 2 weeks ago

Ancient city site to get dedicated museum

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Ancient city site to get dedicated museum.CAO YANG/XINHUA TAIYUAN — A new museum is set to open at the 4,300-year-old Taosi relics site in North China. "The discovery of walled city ruins and important buildings at Taosi represents a significant breakthrough," says Wang Wei, chief expert in charge of the project tracing the origins of Chinese civilization. "The main building …

Women make their mark in archaeological field
1 year ago

Women make their mark in archaeological field

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China Daily | Updated: 2024-03-16 10:05 Members of the archaeological team. Hunching over with shovel in hand, 30-year-old Zhu Yingpei is at work in a newly excavated tomb in Xianyang in Northwest China's Shaanxi province. Pointing to bones and relics in a coffin, Zhu says the tomb belonged to an ordinary person during the Western Han Dynasty. Digging in soil, …

New building of museum at Shang Dynasty capital site to open this month
1 year, 1 month ago

New building of museum at Shang Dynasty capital site to open this month

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BEIJING -- The new building of the Yinxu Museum at the Yin Ruins, the site of the last capital of the Shang Dynasty, will open to the public on Feb 26. The museum, located in the city of Anyang in Central China's Henan province, will showcase nearly 4,000 items or sets of cultural relics, including bronzeware, pottery, jade objects, and …

Museum puts the excitement into excavations
1 year, 5 months ago

Museum puts the excitement into excavations

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Visitors take photos of cultural relics at the Chinese Archaeological Museum in Beijing, which opened to the public in September. It starts with Lufengpithecus lufengensis, ancient apes dating back about 8 million years, through ancient dynasties and up to the new era, and marks significant moments in time and major historical events in China's history. It serves as a kind …

Museum puts the excitement into excavations
1 year, 5 months ago

Museum puts the excitement into excavations

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Visitors take photos of cultural relics at the Chinese Archaeological Museum in Beijing, which opened to the public in September. It starts with Lufengpithecus lufengensis, ancient apes dating back about 8 million years, through ancient dynasties and up to the new era, and marks significant moments in time and major historical events in China's history. It serves as a kind …

China's Shanxi builds museum on Neolithic civilization
1 year, 9 months ago

China's Shanxi builds museum on Neolithic civilization

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This photo taken on May 1, 2023 shows a miniature model of the Taosi relic site in Xiangfen county, North China's Shanxi province. TAIYUAN -- North China's Shanxi province is constructing a museum dedicated to showcasing the remarkable relics of Longshan Culture, a late Neolithic civilization in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River. The museum of the …

Excavation unearths glimpse of Western Zhou Dynasty
1 year, 9 months ago

Excavation unearths glimpse of Western Zhou Dynasty

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An aerial view of the ruins of Dushan in Lishui's Yunhe county, East China's Zhejiang province. An archaeological excavation at the ruins of Dushan in Zhejiang has unveiled 38 tombs, 37 artifact caches, more than 100 pieces of pottery and 25 bronzewares. The site is located in Lishui's Yunhe county and the site was identified as belonging to noble families …

Excavation unearths glimpse of Western Zhou Dynasty
1 year, 9 months ago

Excavation unearths glimpse of Western Zhou Dynasty

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An aerial view of the ruins of Dushan in Lishui's Yunhe county, East China's Zhejiang province. An archaeological excavation at the ruins of Dushan in Zhejiang has unveiled 38 tombs, 37 artifact caches, more than 100 pieces of pottery and 25 bronzewares. The site is located in Lishui's Yunhe county and the site was identified as belonging to noble families …

Excavation unearths glimpse of Western Zhou Dynasty
1 year, 9 months ago

Excavation unearths glimpse of Western Zhou Dynasty

China Daily  

An aerial view of the ruins of Dushan in Lishui's Yunhe county, East China's Zhejiang province. An archaeological excavation at the ruins of Dushan in Zhejiang has unveiled 38 tombs, 37 artifact caches, more than 100 pieces of pottery and 25 bronzewares. The site is located in Lishui's Yunhe county and the site was identified as belonging to noble families …

Excavation unearths glimpse of Western Zhou Dynasty
1 year, 9 months ago

Excavation unearths glimpse of Western Zhou Dynasty

China Daily  

An aerial view of the ruins of Dushan in Lishui's Yunhe county, East China's Zhejiang province. An archaeological excavation at the ruins of Dushan in Zhejiang has unveiled 38 tombs, 37 artifact caches, more than 100 pieces of pottery and 25 bronzewares. The site is located in Lishui's Yunhe county and the site was identified as belonging to noble families …

Excavation unearths glimpse of Western Zhou Dynasty
1 year, 9 months ago

Excavation unearths glimpse of Western Zhou Dynasty

China Daily  

An aerial view of the ruins of Dushan in Lishui's Yunhe county, East China's Zhejiang province. An archaeological excavation at the ruins of Dushan in Zhejiang has unveiled 38 tombs, 37 artifact caches, more than 100 pieces of pottery and 25 bronzewares. The site is located in Lishui's Yunhe county and the site was identified as belonging to noble families …

Nation makes big strides in archaeology
1 year, 10 months ago

Nation makes big strides in archaeology

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Archaeologists excavate relics from a pit at the Yanshanzhai site in Yingde. Project: Findings present 'rich cultural legacies' Chinese research on ancient civilization has made remarkable progress in the past year, since President Xi Jinping called for further efforts to advance the study of Chinese civilization. While presiding over a group study session on May 27 last year of the …

Yinxu royal grave ruins on honor list
1 year, 11 months ago

Yinxu royal grave ruins on honor list

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Archaeologists carry the fossil of a human skull unearthed at Xuetangliangzi, Hubei province. Archaeology: Funerary relics show ethnic unity The Yinxu Ruins, the 3,300-year-old remains of what was once the capital of the late Shang Dynasty, have been included in China's top 10 list of archaeological finds of 2022. According to the administration, the list honored 10 outstanding examples of …

Yinxu royal grave ruins on honor list
1 year, 11 months ago

Yinxu royal grave ruins on honor list

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Archaeologists carry the fossil of a human skull unearthed at Xuetangliangzi, Hubei province. Archaeology: Funerary relics show ethnic unity The Yinxu Ruins, the 3,300-year-old remains of what was once the capital of the late Shang Dynasty, have been included in China's top 10 list of archaeological finds of 2022. According to the administration, the list honored 10 outstanding examples of …

Yinxu royal grave ruins on honor list
1 year, 11 months ago

Yinxu royal grave ruins on honor list

China Daily  

Archaeologists carry the fossil of a human skull unearthed at Xuetangliangzi, Hubei province. Archaeology: Funerary relics show ethnic unity The Yinxu Ruins, the 3,300-year-old remains of what was once the capital of the late Shang Dynasty, have been included in China's top 10 list of archaeological finds of 2022. According to the administration, the list honored 10 outstanding examples of …

Yinxu royal grave ruins on honor list
1 year, 11 months ago

Yinxu royal grave ruins on honor list

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Archaeologists carry the fossil of a human skull unearthed at Xuetangliangzi, Hubei province. Archaeology: Funerary relics show ethnic unity The Yinxu Ruins, the 3,300-year-old remains of what was once the capital of the late Shang Dynasty, have been included in China's top 10 list of archaeological finds of 2022. According to the administration, the list honored 10 outstanding examples of …

Yinxu royal grave ruins on honor list
1 year, 11 months ago

Yinxu royal grave ruins on honor list

China Daily  

Archaeologists carry the fossil of a human skull unearthed at Xuetangliangzi, Hubei province. Archaeology: Funerary relics show ethnic unity The Yinxu Ruins, the 3,300-year-old remains of what was once the capital of the late Shang Dynasty, have been included in China's top 10 list of archaeological finds of 2022. According to the administration, the list honored 10 outstanding examples of …

Yinxu royal grave ruins on honor list
1 year, 11 months ago

Yinxu royal grave ruins on honor list

China Daily  

Archaeologists carry the fossil of a human skull unearthed at Xuetangliangzi, Hubei province. Archaeology: Funerary relics show ethnic unity The Yinxu Ruins, the 3,300-year-old remains of what was once the capital of the late Shang Dynasty, have been included in China's top 10 list of archaeological finds of 2022. According to the administration, the list honored 10 outstanding examples of …

Centuries-old artifacts found in China's relic-rich province
2 years ago

Centuries-old artifacts found in China's relic-rich province

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This undated photo provided by the Shanxi provincial institute of archaeology shows bone tools unearthed from the Yuancun relics site dating back to the late period of the Yangshao Culture some 5,000 to 7,000 years ago at Yuancun village of Xiaxian county in Yuncheng city, North China's Shanxi province. TAIYUAN -- Archaeologists have excavated significant remains dating back to the …

Xia Dynasty relics site found in North China
2 years ago

Xia Dynasty relics site found in North China

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This undated photo provided by the Shanxi provincial institute of archaeology shows bone tools unearthed from the Dongqu relics site dating back to the late period of the Xia Dynasty in Jishan county of Yuncheng city, North China's Shanxi province. TAIYUAN -- Archaeologists have unearthed a relics site dating back to the late period of the Xia Dynasty in North …

Xia Dynasty relics site found in North China
2 years ago

Xia Dynasty relics site found in North China

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This undated photo provided by the Shanxi provincial institute of archaeology shows bone tools unearthed from the Dongqu relics site dating back to the late period of the Xia Dynasty in Jishan county of Yuncheng city, North China's Shanxi province. TAIYUAN -- Archaeologists have unearthed a relics site dating back to the late period of the Xia Dynasty in North …

Sichuan Paleolithic site offers further clues to human cultural evolution
2 years, 2 months ago

Sichuan Paleolithic site offers further clues to human cultural evolution

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CHENGDU — A rich collection of artifacts has been unearthed from a large Paleolithic site in Southwest China's Sichuan province, marking a major breakthrough in China's Paleolithic archaeology. Located in Xiangshan township of Suining, the Taohuahe site is composed of two separated areas, with one covering over 90,000 square meters, according to Zheng Zhexuan, leader of the archaeological team from …

Paleolithic site excavated in Southwest China
2 years, 2 months ago

Paleolithic site excavated in Southwest China

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CHENGDU -- A rich collection of artifacts has been unearthed from a large Paleolithic site in Southwest China's Sichuan province, marking a major breakthrough in China's Paleolithic archaeology. Located in Xiangshan Township of Suining city, the Taohuahe site is composed of two separated areas, with one covering over 90,000 square meters, according to Zheng Zhexuan, leader of the archaeological team …

Prehistoric ruins discovered in East China
2 years, 2 months ago

Prehistoric ruins discovered in East China

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JINAN -- An ancient hominid site dating back some 13,200 years ago has been unveiled in East China's Shandong province, with over 1,000 relics, including pottery sculptures. "We can see that the pottery-making techniques had become relatively mature at that time, and the relics are the hitherto earliest potteries discovered in Shandong," said Zhao Yichao with the provincial cultural relics …

Prehistoric ruins discovered in East China
2 years, 2 months ago

Prehistoric ruins discovered in East China

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This undated aerial photo shows a scene of an ancient hominid site in Zhaojiaxuyao village of Zibo city, East China's Shandong province. An ancient hominid site dating back some 13,200 years ago has been unveiled in East China's Shandong province, with over 1,000 relics, including pottery sculptures. JINAN -- An ancient hominid site dating back some 13,200 years ago has …

New light shed on beginnings of Chinese civilization
2 years, 2 months ago

New light shed on beginnings of Chinese civilization

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A jade figurine excavated at the Niuheliang site in Chaoyang, Liaoning province. Efforts urged Numerous mysteries still surround early civilizations in China, but archaeologists' work in recent decades has provided vital clues to the past. Presiding over a group study session of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee in May, Xi Jinping, general secretary of …

Relics dating back to Bronze Age found in NE China
2 years, 3 months ago

Relics dating back to Bronze Age found in NE China

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This photo taken on Oct. 27, 2022 shows a piece of oracle bone unearthed at the Weizili site in Xiaochengzi village, Nongan county, Northeast China's Jilin province. CHANGCHUN-- Over 100 relics and 24 houses, tombs, and pit remains have been unearthed in a site dating back to the Bronze Age in Northeast China's Jilin province. Twenty-four houses, tombs, and pit …

Millennia-old relics unearthed in Central China's Hunan
2 years, 4 months ago

Millennia-old relics unearthed in Central China's Hunan

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CHANGSHA — A collection of pottery and stone artifacts dating back more than 2,200 years has been unearthed from an archaeological site in Hunan province, according to the provincial institute of heritage and archaeology. Unearthed artifacts mainly include pottery pieces, pottery cauldrons and stone tools, such as spears, arrowheads and knives. Based on the various patterns on the hard pottery …

Glimpse of history
2 years, 7 months ago

Glimpse of history

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Archaic pottery displayed at the National Museum of China. Seven years later, an archaeological team, led by Qiu Shanyuan on assignment for the museum, then the National Museum of History, arrived at the site to carry out excavation and to protect artifacts from being removed. This work was regarded as the beginning of Chinese archaeology and the efforts of the …

A glimpse into how it all started
2 years, 7 months ago

A glimpse into how it all started

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Visitors admire the cultural relics at the exhibition The Making of China: The Civilization of Xia, Shang and Zhou Dynasties, which will run to Oct 23 at Shanghai Museum. Exhibition provides intriguing insight into the first three dynasties of recorded Chinese history, Zhang Kun reports. An exhibition at Shanghai Museum, The Making of China: The Civilization of Xia, Shang and …

A glimpse into how it all started
2 years, 7 months ago

A glimpse into how it all started

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Visitors admire the cultural relics at the exhibition The Making of China: The Civilization of Xia, Shang and Zhou Dynasties, which will run to Oct 23 at Shanghai Museum. Exhibition provides intriguing insight into the first three dynasties of recorded Chinese history, Zhang Kun reports. An exhibition at Shanghai Museum, The Making of China: The Civilization of Xia, Shang and …

A glimpse into how it all started
2 years, 7 months ago

A glimpse into how it all started

China Daily  

Visitors admire the cultural relics at the exhibition The Making of China: The Civilization of Xia, Shang and Zhou Dynasties, which will run to Oct 23 at Shanghai Museum. Exhibition provides intriguing insight into the first three dynasties of recorded Chinese history, Zhang Kun reports. An exhibition at Shanghai Museum, The Making of China: The Civilization of Xia, Shang and …

A palatial discovery
2 years, 8 months ago

A palatial discovery

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A bird's-eye view of Taosi site, located in Xiangfen county, Linfen, North China's Shanxi province. Ongoing excavation of ruins at Taosi, Shanxi province, may hold the key to the forming of prehistoric Chinese civilizations, report Yang Feiyue in Beijing and Sun Ruisheng in Taiyuan. More than six decades ago, a group of archaeologists descended on Taosi site in Xiangfen county, …

A palatial discovery
2 years, 8 months ago

A palatial discovery

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A bird's-eye view of Taosi site, located in Xiangfen county, Linfen, North China's Shanxi province. Ongoing excavation of ruins at Taosi, Shanxi province, may hold the key to the forming of prehistoric Chinese civilizations, report Yang Feiyue in Beijing and Sun Ruisheng in Taiyuan. More than six decades ago, a group of archaeologists descended on Taosi site in Xiangfen county, …

A palatial discovery
2 years, 8 months ago

A palatial discovery

China Daily  

A bird's-eye view of Taosi site, located in Xiangfen county, Linfen, North China's Shanxi province. Ongoing excavation of ruins at Taosi, Shanxi province, may hold the key to the forming of prehistoric Chinese civilizations, report Yang Feiyue in Beijing and Sun Ruisheng in Taiyuan. More than six decades ago, a group of archaeologists descended on Taosi site in Xiangfen county, …

Ancient tombs found in North China's Shanxi
3 years, 2 months ago

Ancient tombs found in North China's Shanxi

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File photo provided by the Shanxi archaeology research institute shows the relics items in an excavation site in Shuozhou, North China's Shanxi province. Archaeologists have discovered more than 400 tombs dating back to the Eastern Zhou Dynasty and the Han dynasty in North China's Shanxi province. TAIYUAN -- Archaeologists have discovered more than 400 tombs dating back to the Eastern …

Hemudu site listed among China's top 100 archaeological finds
3 years, 5 months ago

Hemudu site listed among China's top 100 archaeological finds

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The Hemudu Neolithic cultural site in Yuyao, Ningbo city. The Hemudu Neolithic cultural site in Yuyao, Ningbo city, East China's Zhejiang province has made the list of China's top 100 archaeological findings in the past century, according to the third China Archaeological Congress held on Oct 18 in Henan province. Discovered in 1973, the Hemudu Neolithic cultural site dates back …

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