China Archive
Ancient Technology
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - According to ancient sources, Seneca (c. 4 BC - AD 65), the Roman philosopher, statesman and dramatist used to read "all the books in
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Civilizations
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Sir Aurel Stein (1862 – 1943), British archaeologist, explorer famous for his archaeological discoveries in Central Asia, was fascinated by the history of the
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - For the first time, after the sustained efforts of two generations, Chinese archaeologists have discovered ruins of pottery marked with the characters for "Yueyang" in a location
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Archaeologists believe they may have found a submerged seaside palace built more than 2,200 years ago by China’s first emperor, Ying Zheng, mainland media reports. The building,
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Featured Stories
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Emperor Qin Shi Huang's past is still surrounded by a number of unsolved mysteries and controversies. His birth and death remain a great
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Chinese Mythology
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - There is a beautiful Chinese legend telling the story of the Candle Dragon. It represents one of the most ancient and traditional Chinese
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Chinese archaeologists on Sunday opened the lid of the external coffin of a 2,000-year-old tomb, which they believe belong to a marquis of the Western Han Dynasty
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Researchers conduct excavations at the Haihunhou cemetery near Nanchang City, capital of east China's Jiangxi Province. It’s the most complete known Western Han Dynasty (206 BC -
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Archaeology
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - A rare sculpture of a sphinx dating back more than 1,000 years has been unearthed in a tomb in northwest China. The marble sculpture
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Featured Stories
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The Mogao Grottoes, near the oasis town of Dunhuang in the Gobi Desert, China are where generations of Buddhist monks built hundreds of
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - An ancient tomb has been discovered by a construction team working in a village of Datong Hui, in Datong County, in northwestern China's Qinghai Province, according to
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Eight well-preserved fossilized peach endocarps, or pits, dating back more than two and a half million years, have been found by scientists in southwest China. Despite their age,
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Human Beginnings
AncientPages.com - An "uncommonly well-preserved" fossilized skull of homo erectus has been discovered by Chinese archaeologists, at the Hualongdong archaeological site in Dongzhi County, in east China. The discovery contributes to
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - A discovery of human teeth in southern China has shaken the facts on the spread of modern humans, as it places Homo sapiens in Asia much
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Ancient Mysteries
Ellen Lloyd - MessageToEagle.com - It is located about 40 miles southwest of Xian, the largest of sixteen pyramids located in the area designated as a Shensi, or
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Archaeologists began the first round of excavation on Sunday of a much-sought sunken warship that was confirmed late last month to be the Zhiyuan, a famous
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Archeologists in North China's Shanxi Province have excavated a rare turtle-shaped brick tomb dating back to about 800 years. The tomb of the mid to late Jin
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Ancient Mysteries
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - They came from a distant place in our Galaxy. Their spaceship crashed on Earth. They were chased and killed by humans. Stranded on an
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Civilizations
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The Yangshan Quarry is famous for an unfinished stele of huge size that was abandoned there during the reign of the Yongle Emperor,
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Chinese Mythology
AncientPages.com - Ancient Chinese records talk of a very special being that depending on the sources is described as a god-like-king, a "son of the heavens" or a half-god.
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Featured Stories
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - The story of Li Ching-Yuen is shrouded in controversy. Although much has been written about this extraordinary and mysterious being, little is known
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Yungang Grottoes is a stone carving treasure that is renowned all around the world. Richly decorated grottoes, known as Wuzhoushan Grottoes in ancient times,
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A series of murals recently discovered in Shimao Ruins indicate that the basic production process and rendering techniques used to make Chinese murals might
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Artifacts
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Jade suits were first documented in literature around AD 320, although there is archaeological proof of their existence that dates back thousands of
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Ancient Technology
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - In ancient China we come across a number of highly advanced robots that could sing, dance, act like servants and perform many other surprising
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Ancient Mysteries
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The mysterious ancient Hongshan culture vanished thousands of years ago, but they left behind a number of absolutely astonishing jade figurines that we have
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Ancient Mysteries
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - A mystery lies scattered on the unexplored bottom of Fuxian Lake, stretching out through Chengjiang County, Jiangchuan County and Huaning County in Yunnan Province,
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Civilizations
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Is it just a coincidence or do certain laws of nature lie behind the phenomenon observed in the ancient Huashan Caves in China's Anhui
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Ancient History Facts
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - German printer Johannes Gutenberg did not invent movable type printing; he contributed movable type mechanical printing technology in Europe in 1450. More than four centuries
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Ancient Mysteries
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - What was the purpose of building these strange Tibetan towers? Among many Chinese mysterious structures, are star-shaped towers. Some of them are more than 100
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Featured Stories
AncientPages.com - Thanks to the latest Hollywood martial arts blockbuster along with a steady stream of Hong Kong action films, audiences around the world have been entertained by wild
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Ancient Mysteries
AncientPages.com - There was certainly no lack of UFO sightings in ancient China. In fact, there are many remarkable ancient documented accounts of strange otherworldly flying craft witnessed by
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Civilizations
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - The Sleeping Beauty of Loulan is an extraordinary 3,800-year-old mummy that until today is still preserved. It is one of 200 mummies found in
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Civilizations
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Has the mysterious tomb of Cao Cao (155 - 220 AD) really been found or is the final resting place of this legendary ruler
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Did early Homo sapiens exist in China at the same time when Homo erectus (the "Peking Man") occupied the Zhoukoudian site located near Beijing?
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Artifacts
AncientPages.com - Bian Que was exceptional doctor who lived about 2,500 years ago. He possessed incredible skills in medicine, was gifted with clairvoyance and was well known as a
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Featured Stories
AncientPages.com - The Chinese believe their earliest ancestors came down from the Moon to establish their Celestial Empire on Earth. Very long time ago, certainly, a thousand years before
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Civilizations
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The Antediluvians had technologies that matched our own; there are also serious indications that in certain areas they even possessed extraordinary knowledge, which has
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News
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - There are many secrets deep beneath the waters, but it is not often we report about ancient cities that are deliberately submerged. Hidden
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Ancient Mysteries
AncientPages.com - This time our quest for proof of advanced ancient knowledge takes us straight to ancient China and Japan, where we encounter some of the strangest objects in
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![Photo taken on Dec 20, 2015 shows hoof-shaped gold ware unearthed from the main coffin in the Haihunhou (Marquis of Haihun) cemetery, East China's Jiangxi province. [Photo/Xinhua]](https://www.ancientpages.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/MarquisofHaihuntomb1-220x162.jpg)
![The fossilized skull of Homo erectus discovered at the site of the grotto of Hualong, in the district of Dongzhi, in the Chinese province of Anhui [Credit: Xinhua]](https://www.ancientpages.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/dongzhiman1-220x162.jpg)
