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Chinese archaeologist who discovered 5,000-year-old city pleads guilty to corruption

Liu Bin, a Chinese archaeologist credited with discovering a vast 5,000-year-old prehistoric city that rewrote the history of Chinese civilisation, has pleaded guilty to taking bri...

Can China team’s Greek dig unveil an untold truth in ancient world history?

Chinese archaeologists have started work on a joint excavation project at a site in Greece that may help answer some increasingly popular questions in China about the roots of anci...

Celestial craftsmanship: discoveries from China Sanxingdui uveil secrets of meteorite axe

The archaeological site of Sanxingdui in southwest China’s Sichuan province has yielded remarkable discoveries, including insights recently revealed by Chinese researchers about ho...

New Dates Obtained for Stone Tools in East Asia

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS—Stone tools uncovered at the Lingjing archaeological site in central China have been dated […] The post New Dates Obtained for Stone Tools in East Asia appeared f...

China scientists argue that harsh settings, not warm climates, drive early human creativity

Archaeologists in central China have directly challenged the long-held belief that humanity’s earliest ancestors reached their creative peak during warm and hospitable climates. Fo...

160,000 Years Ago, Hominins in China Were Far More Advanced Than We Thought

New findings from central China are reshaping our understanding of early human innovation. An international team of researchers has identified evidence of advanced stone tool techn...

This ancient Chinese megacity hides mysterious tunnels buried for over 4,000 years

146,000-Year-Old Discovery Rewrites the Story of Human Creativity

Crystals preserved inside a prehistoric bone led scientists to revise the estimated age of the archaeological site, suggesting that its stone tools were crafted during a severe ice...

The archaeology tranche at Emergent Ventures

Benjamin Arbuckle is combining archaeology and ancient DNA analysis to reconstruct entire ecosystems of ancient cities, aiming to show how human societies can thrive in balance wit...

How archaeology turns political in the West Bank

Archaeologists, residents and government officials talk about how uncovering and preserving centuries-old sites and artifacts in Israel and the West Bank also serves to highlight c...

Feature: Giving relics a new breath of life

HOHHOT, April 2 (Xinhua) -- At the Inner Mongolia Museum in north China, a relics restorer in a white coat maneuvers an X-ray fluorescence (XRF) spectrometer close to a gilt silver...

Artifacts including pottery works discovered in Afghanistan

KABUL, April 26 (Xinhua) -- A total of two dozen artifacts, including some pottery works, have been discovered in eastern Afghanistan's Ghazni province, reported the official Radio...

Archaeologists uncover massive ancient site during rail project, including rare Roman find

Archaeologists in the Czech Republic have discovered over 1,000 artifacts before railway construction, including a rare Roman-era metal wire drawplate.

Ancient Pots, Stone Tools Found Near Kambham

Findings point to Megalithic burial practices and prehistoric human activity

Archaeologists Discover Prehistoric Mountain Cave Packed With Mysterious Green Mineral

A prehistoric Pyrenees cave may have been an early copper-processing camp repeatedly used for thousands of years, with archaeologists also uncovering child remains and symbolic jew...

Giving relics a new breath of life

HOHHOT, April 2 (Xinhua) -- At the Inner Mongolia Museum in north China, a relics restorer in a white coat maneuvers an X-ray fluorescence (XRF) spectrometer close to a gilt silver...

Ice age humans in China crafted surprisingly advanced stone tools 146,000 years ago

Scientists in China discovered that ancient humans were making surprisingly advanced stone tools during a harsh ice age 146,000 years ago. The tools, created by Homo juluensis, sho...

How archaeology turns political in the West Bank

In the Judean desert, a complex past is being unearthed into a complicated present. Correspondent Seth Doane journeys to Israel and the West Bank, talking with archaeologists, resi...

CHINA-INNER MONGOLIA-HOHHOT-CULTURAL RELICS CONSERVATION (CN)

(260519) -- HOHHOT, May 19, 2026 (Xinhua) -- Xu Zheng (R) and her colleague clean and consolidate a model in Hohhot, north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, on April 1, 202...

Archaeologists unearth 2,300 year old bottle of Chinese beer

Excavations of a fourth-century tomb located a mile from the Great Wall of China uncovered a "masterfully fermented" beer thought to have been brewed under the Zhou dynasty. The po...

Unearthing peace: ancient China gravesite reveals significance of broken weapons

“War is hell,” as the saying goes, and it is often those most intimately acquainted with conflict who are the most eager to leave it behind. This yearning for peace was underscored...

Buried for 2,500 years: giant lost structure discovered beneath Egypt’s Nile Delta

Cabinet cracks down on illegal excavation

Ancient Chinese Broke Weapons In Pursuit Of Peace, Archaeological Site Reveals

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Who wants war? The majority of people want to live in peace. “War is hell,” as the saying goes, and it is often those who know conflict most closely...