The bronze artifacts unearthed at Sanxingdui in Sichuan Province reveal the existence of a sophisticated Bronze Age civilization that operated independently from the better-known Shang Dynasty. These ...

Yinxu, the capital of the Late Shang dynasty (c. 1600–1046 BC), is China’s archaeological holy land. Since the identification of oracle bones near what is today the city of Anyang at the turn of the ...

Warmer waters in the Pacific Ocean may have brought devastating floods to the cradle of ancient Chinese civilization, according to a recent study in which its authors link three wildly different lines ...