In the city's long history, the earliest walls were built in Zhongdu, capital of the Jin Dynasty. At that time more than one million civilians and soldiers toiled for three years to expand the old ...

Beijing was the capital city for the Liao, Jin, Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties. Except for the Ming Dynasty, all the rulers of these dynasties were from northern nomadic tribes. For those 500 ...

The Great Jin Dynasty has returned to the world after a team of archaeologists uncovered three tombs from the 1115-1234 AD era, located in Changzhi city, Shanxi province. As reported by China ...

The site, dating back to 3,800 years ago, is believed to be the capital city of the Xia Dynasty, known as the earliest dynasty of China. This is an extract from the BBC programme China's Greatest ...

The Shanxi Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology along with the Changzhi Archaeological Research Institute recently excavated three brick-chamber tombs with murals from the Jin Dynasty ...