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2,200-year-old grave in China contains 'Red Princess of the Silk Road' whose teeth were painted with a toxic substance
Archaeologists in China have discovered a unique burial of a woman whose teeth had been painted with cinnabar, with a toxic ...
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2,000-year-old terraced wood-frame houses discovered in well-preserved state in China
Chinese archaeologists uncovered 2,300-year-old waterfront metropolis from the Yue dynasty with superior building techniques.
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A New Study Finds That Domestic Cats Traveled the Silk Road to China About 1,400 Years Ago
Per the study, China’s oldest known domestic cat lived in the central province of Shaanxi between 706 and 883, during the ...
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A 7,000-Year-Old Fire-Starting Kit Was Just Unearthed in China
In eastern China, archaeologists brushed away layers of soil to reveal something astonishing: a 7,000-year-old fire-drilling ...
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New Discoveries Shed Light on 6,000-Year-Old Hongshan Culture in China
Archaeologists in China have uncovered 53 ancient sites linked to the Hongshan culture, a prehistoric civilization dating ...
Rare ceramic dragon head — at least 1,400 years old — found at temple in China. See it
The site was found near the Xiong’an New Area in Hebei Province in northeastern China, near the city of Beijing. Google ...
New study reveals domestic cats arrived in China via the Silk Road around 600 CE
"Initially, cats were considered valuable exotic pets," said study co-author Shu-Jin Luo, according to Live Science. Upon ...
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4,000-Year-Old City Walls from Early Xia Dynasty Discovered in China
Archaeologists in China have uncovered ancient city walls in Henan Province, dating back to the early Xia Dynasty (2070–1600 ...
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Pet cats arrived in China via the Silk Road 1,400 years ago, ancient DNA study finds
These traders and officials brought just a handful of the pets to China, offering them as tribute to members of the elite, ...
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City walls from China's earliest dynasty discovered in central China
ZHENGZHOU, March 13 (Xinhua) -- Ancient city walls unearthed in central China's Henan Province have been identified as dating ...
New Hongshan culture sites found in northeast China
Archaeologists have recently discovered multiple Hongshan culture sites in the city of Lingyuan, northeast China's Liaoning ...