Chinese archaeologists working on the Loess Plateau in north-central China have uncovered a vast site of rammed earth buildings, cemeteries, and bronze casting workshops dating back around 3,200 ...

While Niu uncovers Yinxu’s layout, across the river, 63-year-old Li Cunxin is tackling a different mystery: the origin of the Chinese chariot, one of the Shang dynasty’s most powerful weapons. On ...

But for the archaeologists excavating the dynasty’s last capital ... New techniques and approaches are shedding light on some of the Shang’s greatest mysteries, from its fearsome chariot-borne shock ...

Bronze pieces of horse chariots and horse remains have also ... and may have been captured by the rulers of the Shang Dynasty, who were based in what is now neighboring Henan province.

The relics, dating from more than 3,000 years ago, were made during the Shang Dynasty, which ruled northern ... several bronze pieces of horse chariots and the remains of horses, which will ...

which revealed the earliest wooden chariots and horses ever found in China as well as bronze vessels with craftsmanship connecting them with the Shang dynasty capital of Anyang. The Shang would ...

From the majestic bronze sacrificial vessel Simuwu Ding to the spectacular chariot pulled by six white ... Deputy Director of the Shang Dynasty Relics Museum Ma Yupeng told the Global Times ...

The sites belonging to the ancient Shang dynasty (1600BC-1046 BC ... including a set of accessories placed on chariots and horses, a swallow-shaped ornament inlaid with turquoise, a bone tool ...

For more than 3,000 years, China’s oldest-known distilled spirit remained hidden inside a bronze, owl-shaped vessel unearthed within a Shang Dynasty tomb. Discovered in 2010 in Jinan ...