Archaeologists have uncovered what is now considered the oldest section of the Great Wall in Shandong Province, shifting its ...

Just over 3,000 years ago, the newly established Western Zhou Dynasty (c. 11th century-771 BC) included present-day Beijing area under the rule of a united central kingship for the first time.

Those buried there belonged to two families related by marriage, and the cemetery contains the remains of at least four generations. Consanguineous marriage between cousins has been proven through the ...

When vegetable fats, especially sesame oil, replaced tallow and lard 1,500 years ago in China, people were able to 'fry everything', and did Guests at a recent housewarming dinner were saying how ...

was toppled by a new dynasty, the Zhou. The Zhou came from the west - from the steppes of central Asia. Like the Kushites of Sudan who conquered Egypt at roughly the same time, the Zhou were a ...

Discover artworks and national treasures tracing the Chinese culinary evolution from Neolithic times to the Qing dynasty, ...