Revealed through meticulous excavations at the Zhuqiu Temple site and the ancient walled city in Xinmi, traces of an ancient civilization believed to belong to the Xia Dynasty have emerged ...

In these tombs were found bronze oxen, stone horses and other sacrificial objects. The Western Xia was a dynasty which had close relations with the Han regime. At first it acknowledged allegiance ...

BEIJING, Dec. 20 (Xinhua) -- Scholars from China's Tsinghua University have released three documents after sorting and deciphering bamboo slips dating back over 2,000 years, according to a press ...

The walled city is thought to have been constructed during the Xia dynasty, which ruled from 2070 to 1600 B.C. It was discovered several years ago along the eastern bank of the Zhenshui River ...

Xie’s descendants founded the dynasty. The first Shang king was Cheng Tang who defeated the Xia dynasty in the Battle of Mingtiao. The last Shang king was Di Xin, defeated in a great battle by ...

Moreover, the literary-historical accounts of the legendary Xia Dynasty in early China reveal a cultural construction involving social memories of the past and subsequent political elaborations in ...

Xie’s descendants founded the dynasty. The first Shang king was Cheng Tang who defeated the Xia dynasty in the Battle of Mingtiao. The last Shang king was Di Xin, defeated in a great battle by ...