This is an exciting year for archaeology in Asia! As I have discussed earlier, new discoveries have transformed our understanding of the Indus Valley Civilization (IVC). Now, new research presented in ...

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 ...

Around 4,000 years ago, a hero named Yu halted a massive flood and earned a divine mandate to create the Xia dynasty, China's first. Well, so the story goes. But like so much ancient history, it can ...

Archaeologists previously thought the Chinese Xia dynasty mythological, but new evidence suggests otherwise. A new study coauthored by EAPS Professor Darryl Granger, which was published in Science, ...

OSLO (Reuters) - The crushed skeletons of children point to an earthquake and catastrophic flood on China's Yellow River 4,000 years ago that could be the source of a legendary "Great Flood" at the ...

From 2070BC to 256BC, the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties paved the way for Chinese society with Taoism, written language, music and more. As China’s influence grew abroad, cultural exchange helped open ...

CHINA’S leaders are immensely proud of their country’s ancient origins. President Xi Jinping peppers his speeches with references to China’s “5,000 years of history”. The problem is that ...