Chinese archaeologists have uncovered a high-ranking royal mausoleum dating back to the late Warring States Period (475BC-221BC) in Northwest China's Shaanxi Province, with substantial evidence suggesting it might be the burial place of Queen Dowager Huayan...

A new round of comprehensive surveys has so far discovered more than 500 ancient cliff paintings in northwest China's Helan Mountains. The mountains are home to over 20,000 such works, created by ancient people and depicting over 100 types of natural imager...

Chinese archaeologists have uncovered a wealth of artifacts and remains at a 2,500-year-old settlement in Shaoxing, East China's Zhejiang Province, offering new clues to the social organization and water management of the ancient Yue Kingdom, which preceded...

Through a multidisciplinary study of the bat cave site in Heqing, Southwest China's Yunnan Province, an international research team led by Chinese Academician Chen Fahu from the Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) ...

From windswept steppes to desert oases, frontier archaeology is about more than digging up the past. It traces the pulse of civilizations as they collided, converged, and reshaped one another across the ancient world. That spirit was recently on full displa...