China Archive

Conny Waters -  AncientPages.com - A collaborative study has revealed evidence of rice beer dating back approximately 10,000 years at the Shangshan site in Zhejiang Province, China. This

A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The story of Hua Mulan, a brave young female warrior, is related to the Three Kingdoms Period (220–280), a chaotic and difficult time

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The discovery of two ancient skeletons exhibiting remarkably similar injuries is an intriguing archaeological find. These unrelated individuals, who lived over 2,000 years ago,

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com -  Archaeologists in China have made an incredible discovery. During excavations near the Hexitou village in the Xinfu District, archaeologists located two ruins from

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com -  There may still be vanished human species unknown to scientists. A research team has discovered an unusual 300,000-year-old jawbone with an unexpected combination

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A system of ancient ceramic water pipes, the oldest ever unearthed in China, shows that neolithic people were capable of complex engineering feats

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com -Excavations in Hualongdong (HLD), East China, have revealed abundant hominin fossils dating back 300,000 years. The fossils from a late Middle Pleistocene were excavated

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Researchers examined the Longquan celadon (high-quality glazed ceramic pottery) industry, located in Zhejiang province in China, which flourished mainly between the Southern Song

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Scientists have unearthed what could be the world's oldest known saddle. The well-preserved soft leather saddle recovered from the tomb of a female

Conny Waters -  AncientPages.com - Scientists have used mitochondrial DNA to trace a female lineage from northern coastal China to the Americas. By integrating contemporary and ancient mitochondrial

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The saying "there is nothing new under the Sun" seems appropriate when we learn that sanitary hardware was invented long ago. Scientists have

A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - One of the most perplexing ancient Chinese artifacts ever discovered is the jade cong that offers evidence our ancestors were familiar with advanced

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The sustainable development of agriculture has laid a solid foundation for the birth of human civilization and countries. Early agriculture has long been

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com –  An exceptionally well-preserved collection of fossils discovered in eastern Yunnan Province, China, has enabled scientists to solve a centuries-old riddle in the

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists and paleontologists have recently unearthed an intriguing 1-million-year-old human skull fossil that gives scientists a remarkable opportunity to get more insight into

Conny Waters- AncientPages.com - Strange mythical beasts appear in tales worldwide. In most cases, their description fits a specific category, and it's possible to define the nature of

A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Fingerprints have been a source of people's great fascination and can be traced back to ancient times. Handprints and fingerprints made by W.

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com  - A tomb of an upper-class female from the late Spring and Autumn Period (770-476 BC) has been excavated at the Taosibei cemetery site

A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Even ordinary people were involved in the flourishing trade, and soon Lydia became one of antiquity's most prosperous kingdoms. Gold stater of Croesus.

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The discovery of a giant sinkhole in China and a huge, ancient unexplored world beyond our feet is extraordinary in many ways. The

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The Bamboo Annals or Zhushu Jinian in Mandarin are a valuable source for the history and chronology of ancient China spanning ca. 2400