in ancient China, it probably was used as a tool to solidify social hierarchies. A team of scientists recently analysed a bronze-age tomb from the Qijia culture (2200BC-1600BC) located in Gansu ...

IN his Conway Memorial Lecture, "Science and Society in Ancient China", delivered ... out that the status of military technology may deeply affect the crystallization of social philosophy, and ...

"(This system) was mapped into burial patterns, whereby social status (was ... with references to the penal and medical systems of ancient China, Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences ...

leading it to be regarded as an encyclopedia in ancient China. Up till now, no one actually knows when the Classic of Mountains and Rivers was completed. The earliest record of the book can be ...

Chinese archaeologists say they have discovered the first complete skeleton of a giant panda in an ancient emperor’s tomb, a status symbol ... which served as China’s capital for centuries ...

Photo from the Institute of Archaeology at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and the China Archaeology Network Obscured by dirt and forgotten by time, an ancient well — and its hidden ...

Emperor Wu ruled China as part of the Northern Zhou dynasty from 560 to 580 and is credited with unifying the northern part of ancient China during a particularly chaotic period. Archaeologists ...

Ancient Buddhist murals in northwestern China are under “direct threat” as a result of unprecedented levels of rainfall brought about by climate change, researchers said this week. Extreme ...

Human sacrifice has played a gruesome but important role in ancient history, and thousands of years ago, in ancient China, it probably was used as a tool to solidify social hierarchies.