From the People's Daily, Chinese archaeologists say they have found more evidence to prove Hepu, at Beihai City in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, was the oldest departure point on the country's ancient maritime trading route.

A report in Rocky Mountain News on Chinese pyramids.

From Backdirt, Joint Project by UCLA and Peking University traces the origins of this early commodity.

Brief news article in People's Daily describes the excavation of bronze ware in a Shanxi Province village.

From the People's Daily, oldest section of the Great Wall was built during ancient China's Chu Kingdom, during the Spring and Autumn Period (770-476 B.C.).

From BBC, man entered northern China as long as 1.36 million years ago, according to new research.

Artifacts housed in Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica are mainly from the archaeological excavation conducted in Mainland China and Taiwan.

Examines neolithic cultures, historical influences, and use of metals going back to the 3rd millennium B.C.

From Xinhuanet, Chinese archeologists have found alarge ancient saltpeter manufacturing base which they believe was used to manufacture gunpowder over 1,000 years ago.

Many cliff inscriptions of 1,700 years old have been found in the Three Gorges area on the Yangtze River.

From the BBC, Stone Age craftsmen in China were polishing objects using diamond 2,000 years before anyone else had the same idea.

A summary of all the picture files available on the Brooklyn College Core 9 Chinese Culture site, along with their sources.

Jade best exemplifies the essential aspects of Chinese culture and aesthetic appreciation.

From the People's Daily, Neolithic grotto grave is found on the Nongshan Mountain of southwestern Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, unveiling the burial secrets of the Luoyue People.

From the people's Daily, Chinese archaeologists have unearthed a wooden boat dating back at least 7,500 years in Xiaoshan City of east China's Zhejiang Province.

From BBC, China says it is closing off vast sections of the Great Wall to tourists in an effort to protect it.

From CNN, China had an express postal service as long ago as 221 BCE, according to archaeologists studying recently discovered Imperial documents.

A report from Xinhua that China was taking legal measures to protect the natural environment as early as West Han Dynasty (206 BCE to 24 CE), in Gansu Province.

From Xinhua News, a Byzantine gold coin recently unearthed in Dulan in northwest China's Qinghai Province, may shed new light on the history of East-West trade routes.

Asian Perspectives 41(1). This paper discusses the main debates stimulated by the Xia-Shang-Zhou Chronology Project and critically evaluates the methodology it employed. [subscription required]

Specializes in Chinese archaeology and museology.

From People's Daily, after nearly two years'excavation, archeologists have found a huge underground storeroom for musical instruments at a tomb of state of Yue in Wuxi, Jiangsu Province.

From Xinhua, Chinese aristocrats were building hundreds of tombs in this ancient capital of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty.