China Archive
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Angela Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Before a catastrophe occurred, there was a time in the distant past when the Gobi Desert was covered by water, spanning areas of
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Rafael - AncientPages.com - Just like China, the swords that were utilized for battles also had a long and rich history. The earliest known Chinese swords from the period
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Ancient Mysteries
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - In the Book of Enoch we find detailed descriptions of a mysterious beings called the Watchers. These beings, known as the Fallen Angels were
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - If you think going to a dentist is an awful thing, be thankful you didn’t live thousands of years ago. Our ancestors understood
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Ancient History Facts
AncientPages.com - Pax Sinica (in Latin:"Chinese peace") was similar in its meaning to Pax Romana, and it applied to the period of peace in East Asia, maintained by social, cultural, ideological, or economic
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Did Empress Cixi poison her enemies to stay in power? Historians find it suspicious that some people close to Empress Cixi died suddenly under
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - A lacquered "dragon bed" that dates back t aboput 2,500 years has been now restored by archaeologists in southwest China after a 17-year effort, the Chengdu Cultural
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Ancient History Facts
AncientPages.com - Painting your fingernails in ancient China and Egypt was not just a matter of vanity. The color of a person's nails indicates social status. Our ancestors
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Ancient Technology
AncientPages.com - An ingenious irrigation system that allowed ancient Chinese farmers to raise livestock and cultivate crops in one of the world’s driest desert regions of China, has been
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Civilizations
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - On the edge of the Gobi Desert in China, there is a fascinating group of people who are entirely different from other Chinese.
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Ancient Symbols
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Number Six has an interesting significance; it is one of the few symbolic series in the Christian tradition that are based on the number
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - The pursuit of immortality was very popular among the most powerful Chinese emperors. China’s first emperor, Ying Zheng was one of those who pursued the mysterious elixir of
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Ancient Technology
AncientPages.com - A huge ancient hydraulic system discovered in China may be the world’s oldest and predate Mesopotamian water systems. Ancient skilled Mesopotamian engineers constructed sophisticated water systems around
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Artifacts
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - An ancient, romantic legend tells about Niulang and Zhinyu, who are separated by the Heavenly Queen and allowed to meet once a year
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Archaeologists hope they have finally found the long-lost tomb of Tang Xianzu who has often been described as “China’s Shakespeare. While excavating in Fuzhou, east China's Jiangxi
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Ancient History Facts
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - There is still much to be learned from our ancestors who were familiar with several types of advanced technologies. Dougong brackets were used a
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Ancient Technology
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Today, Danish physicist Hans Christian Oersted is credited with aluminum's invention. In 1825, Oersted successfully separated aluminum metal from its oxide and techniques to
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Whether these ancient skeletons should be considered "giants" is a matter of opinion, but Chinese archaeologists have labeled these bones - remains of
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - This giant, very oddly-shaped rock is remarkable. It could be of great historical importance, but it's also possible it's just an unusual natural
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Ancient Traditions And Customs
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Huangluo is a small community located deep in the mountains of southern China’s Guangxi province. In this Chinese settlement, known as “Long Hair
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Ancient sacred texts, precious artifacts, archaeological discoveries, myths, and legends open a window to the past. Sometimes ancient stories may seem to be
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News
AncientPages.com - On March 29, 1974, local farmers in Lintong District, Xi'an, Shaanxi province, China, discovered the Terracotta Army buried with Qin Shi Huang, the first Emperor of China, in the
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - According to a centuries-old legend, a great treasure belonging to the leader of a Chinese peasants uprising was lying at the bottom of a river. This
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Civilizations
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Sanxingdui are ruins of an ancient Chinese city with traces of a previously unknown culture dated to Bronze Age. The ruins are located
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - A mysterious pyramid-shaped tomb has been unearthed in China. The age of the tomb has not yet been determined. It is also unknown who was buried inside
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Two 1.82-meter-high statues have been found in the grotto in Shimenshan area in the Dazu Rock Carvings in Chongqing, China. Shimenshan Rock Carvings are located to the
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - An underground cache of bronze wares has been unearthed from a tomb site dating back 2,300 years in the city of Chengdu, a large city located n Sichuan,
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Two partial archaic human skulls, from the Lingjing site, Xuchang, central China, provide a new window into the biology and populations patterns of the immediate predecessors of
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Excavation of the royal tombs of the Marquis of Haihun State of China's Western Han Dynasty (206 BC-8 AD) revealed many relics and among them, there is
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - More than 100 plant seeds dating back 2,000 years have been unearthed from an ancient tomb in northern China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. The seeds, which are
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Ancient Symbols
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Many ancient cultures regarded number 9 (or ‘Nine’) as a symbol of perfection, unity, and freedom. Even in ancient Egypt, it was attached great
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - A large collection of boat coffin tombs dating back 2,200 years has been discovered by Chinese archeologists at a construction site in Feihu Village, Pujiang County in
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News
AncientPages.com - On February 1, 1662, the Chinese general Koxinga seized the island of Taiwan after a nine-month siege. Koxinga (1624-1662) was a Chinese military leader by many regarded as a
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Ancient Technology
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - A gnomon ("one that knows or examines") is the part of a sundial that casts a shadow. The term has been used for many
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists excavating in China may be closer to unravel the mystery of the 2,000-year-old urn burial mystery. As many as 113 ancient tombs
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Chinese Mythology
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - An almost 2,000-year-old large complex of temples, shrines, and monasteries known as Fengdu Ghost City is devoted to the afterlife. Many temples and shrines
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Featured Stories
AncientPages.com - Today, it is time for another great man of ancient times and the most important figure in the Chinese history - Confucius. Better known as Master
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News
AncientPages.com - On June 25, 1900, the Dunhuang manuscripts were discovered in one of the sealed caves of the Mogao Caves of Dunhuang, China. They are important religious and secular
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News
AncientPages.com - On May 30, 1010, Emperor Renzong of Song was born. Emperor's name was Zhao Zhen, and he was the fourth emperor of the Song dynasty in
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AncientPages.com - On May 11, 868, the Diamond Sutra was published in northern China. This priceless religious teaching survives as the oldest dated, printed book. The manuscript was one of many other books
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Working now in the lab conditions, scientists have opened the 2,000-year-old coffin thought to belong to Liu He, the Marquis of Haihun. The remains of the "Marquis
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News
AncientPages.com - On 30 March 240 BC, the first recorded passage of Halley's Comet was observed by Chinese astronomers in the Chinese chronicle 'Records of the Grand Historian'
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