Archaeologists are gripped by something new about the Great Wall of China, which spans 12,000 miles and was constructed over ...

The oldest known part of the Great Wall of China was recently excavated, dating 300 years earlier than the previous ...

The subject of wine, and the rituals associated with it, are thoroughly documented in two texts from the Zhou dynasty: the Yili (often translated as the Book of Etiquettes and Rites) and the ...

was toppled by a new dynasty, the Zhou. The Zhou came from the west - from the steppes of central Asia. Like the Kushites of Sudan who conquered Egypt at roughly the same time, the Zhou were a ...

The first two are earlier endeavors, with 10-meter-wide walls possibly dating as far back as the Zhou Dynasty during the Spring and Autumn Period (1046-256 BCE). A third section built at the Qi ...

New discoveries at Liulihe provide fresh clues about the origin of the city that eventually became China's capital, Wang ...

Recent excavations at the Liulihe relic site in Beijing have uncovered significant discoveries, including the precise ...

Thanks to high tech dating methods, scientists have been able to prove that this section dates back to the late Western Zhou Dynasty, or 1046 BCE to 771 BCE. These findings come from the very ...