Chinese archaeologists have made a significant breakthrough in the exploration of the culture of the Xia Dynasty (c.2070BC-c.1600BC) with the discovery of a rammed-earth wall suspected to be the city ...

Thousands of years ago, the legend goes, an ancient people living along the banks of the Yellow River in northern China experienced a flood unlike any before it. The waters inundated communities and ...

Shards of multicolored tiles are strewn so thickly around the crumbling pyramids of the kings of the Xixia Dynasty that the ground does not crunch underfoot. It clinks, with the rather melancholy ...

The discovery of the relics site of a major city dating back about 3,700 years marks a major breakthrough in archaeological research on the Xia Dynasty (2070 BC-1600 BC), China's earliest known ...

The remains of a palace and barns dating back about 4,000 years have been found at two important archaeological sites in Central China's Henan province, archaeologists said last week. The two sites — ...

Researchers have provided geological evidence for China's 'Great Flood,' a disastrous event on the Yellow River from which the Xia dynasty is thought to have been born. The flood occurred in roughly ...

Nestled at the foot of the Helan Mountain, 30 kilometers west of Yinchuan, capital city of Northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, some sprawling mausoleums of earthen "pyramids" stand as a ...

Two years of archaeological research at the Xinzhai Ruins of Xinmi City, in central China's Henan Province, has borne fruit. Scientists have basically confirmed this was a large city with three moats ...

An ancient Chinese legend tells the story of a hero who saved China from a devastating Great Flood of the Yellow River that left people homeless and destroyed farmlands. With the help of a dragon and ...

A deluge on the Yellow River 4,000 years ago led to a feat of Bronze Age hydro-engineering. Ancient Chinese legends tell of a catastrophic flood along the Yellow River that led to the founding of the ...