While museums curate artifacts behind glass, archaeological parks offer a dynamic alternative: sprawling landscapes where ...

Ancient home foundations found in central China are the first of their kind to be unearthed. Xianyang Institute of Cultural ...

In Xianyang, China, archaeologists uncovered the remains of ancient homes dating back to the Yangshao period, around 5,000 years ago. The excavation revealed 19 house foundations with unique ...

In 2010, the China National Silk Museum began key scientific research set up by the National Cultural Heritage Administration on the origin of silk. "As the testing technology has become more ...

ZHENGZHOU -- Chinese archaeologists have unveiled facial reconstructions of two men who lived near the Yellow River, the cradle of Chinese civilization, during the Neolithic Age. One man, believed to ...

A millet-farming settlement on the Shandong coast in Neolithic China around 4,500 years ago organized its society by maternal lineage, according to researchers at Peking University.

Neolithic society in eastern China tracing descent through female line lasted 250 years and at least 10 generations, Chinese-led team finds. Advertisement. Science. China Science.