A new study of 2,316 burials from China’s Central Plain suggests that ancient inequality became durable thousands of years ...

A study of 2,300 ancient burials in China shows how social networks shaped inequality long before the rise of early states.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ancient China began as a group of isolated communities during the Stone Age and eventually grew into a formidable empire. Ancient ...

Periods of peace and wealth allowed people to invest more in the afterlife, leaving behind a lasting record of cultural and environmental history. Stretching from the fertile plains of Chengdu to the ...

Tombs scattered across China, built between the 4,000-year old Xia Dynasty and the modern era, reflect the political and social patterns of Chinese history, according to a study published in PLOS One ...

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 ...

The chance rediscovery of the ancient Chinese Sanxingdui civilization is legendary in and of itself. In 1929, an unsuspecting peasant in Sichuan province stumbled upon a cache of jade relics while ...