Recent Posts Tagged With 'china'

• Birth of China Culture May Have Been Fragmented

  Posted on Monday August 24th, 2009 at 14:35 in china, civilization

  Stretch of the Yellow River in early evening.New research casts serious doubt about China’s founding dynasty, dispelling the concept that the civilization arose as a single national culture along the Yellow River.Since 2004, archeologists headed by...

• China May Unearth Another 5,000 Clay Soldiers

  Posted on Saturday June 13th, 2009 at 21:49 in china, terra cotta soldiers

  Chinese archaeologists today began a new excavation to find more terracotta warriors in hopes of unraveling the mysteries surrounding the ancient figures buried in the tomb of the first emperor.The new dig is in the site's largest pit, which is belie...

• High-Tech Reveals More of China's Great Wall

  Posted on Tuesday April 21st, 2009 at 11:30 in technology, china, great wall

  A section of the Great Wall in disrepair.China’s famed Great Wall has gained another 180 miles due to infrared range finders and GPS devices enabling researchers to find portions previously concealed by hills, trenches and rivers.The newly mapped p...

• Clay Figures May Be Servants, Not Soldiers

  Posted on Tuesday April 14th, 2009 at 20:31 in china, xi'an, clay soldiers

  A small portion of the terracotta figures, either soldiers or servants.A Chinese professor says the famed terracotta soldiers of Xi'an aren't soldiers at all ~ they're royal servants and bodyguards, most likely modeled after high-ranking Qin dynasty ...

• Sections of Great Wall are Disappearing

  Posted on Friday January 2nd, 2009 at 13:03 in china, great wall

  Some 20 percent of the Inner Mongolian stretch of the Great Wall of China has disappeared, archaeologists said this week. The affected stretch is about 98 miles long. In recent centuries, the Great Wall ~ built in the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) ~ has b...

• Chinese May Have Word Red 15,000 Years Ago

  Posted on Thursday November 27th, 2008 at 22:29 in china, clothing

  Researchers believe the color red could have been used in Chinese clothing 15,000 years ago.According to Li Zhanyang, a researcher with Henan Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, an excavation team at the Xuchang ruins recently fo...

• New Bone-Oracle Symbols Discovered in China

  Posted on Wednesday November 12th, 2008 at 10:06 in china, oracle, Divination

  Example of ancient Oracle Bone Script on a turtle's shell.Archaeologists in China’s Shaanxi province recently unearthed more than 1,100 oracle bone characters, shedding new light on their symbolism.The find was made at a cluster of tombs in Qishan ...