Sixth Tone

Digging Into the Shang Dynasty’s Empire of Bones

In 1984, a team of archaeologists opened the tomb of a minor nobleman in the Shang dynasty capital of Yinxu, in what is today the central province of Henan. When they reached the burial chamber’s ...
Ars Technica

An unlikely set of clues helps reconstruct ancient Chinese disasters

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 ...
Artnet

Archaeologists in China Have Unearthed Shang Dynasty Tombs Containing More Than 200 Precious Burial Objects. See Them Here

Chinese archaeologists working on the Loess Plateau in north-central China have uncovered a vast site of rammed earth buildings, cemeteries, and bronze casting workshops dating back around 3,200 years ...
Sixth Tone

For China’s Archaeologists, All Roads Lead to Yinxu

HENAN, Central China — It was only mid-May, but the sun was beating down as Niu Shishan picked his way across a pockmarked field in the central Chinese city of Anyang. Niu, a tall, bespectacled ...