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 ...

A new study suggests young dogs were frequently buried with humans in China some 3,000 years ago, but the precise reasons remain elusive During the last centuries of China’s Shang dynasty, which ...

Life was short and sometimes brutal for many of the dogs of China's Shang Dynasty. New research shows that most of the canines sacrificed during this Bronze Age were just puppies, with some of them ...

Chinese archaeologists have uncovered four Shang Dynasty (c.1600BC-1046BC) tombs in North China's Shanxi Province that have yielded a treasure trove of pottery and jade artifacts, offering new insight ...