Chinese historiography generally presents Chinese history through the lens of various dynasties. The earliest historically attested dynasty is the Shang Dynasty, which arose around 1600 B.C.E. However ...

A deluge on the Yellow River 4,000 years ago led to a feat of Bronze Age hydro-engineering. Ancient Chinese legends tell of a catastrophic flood along the Yellow River that led to the founding of the ...

The Great Wall of this period is scarcely mentioned in Chinese literature and records. In the 1970s, archaeologists uncovered sections of the Great Wall constructed by the Western Xia Dynasty during ...

Chinese legend tells of a great flood, and how Emperor Yu drove back the floodwaters, founding the Xia dynasty and giving rise to Chinese civilization. Now an international scientific collaboration ...

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 ...

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, ...

Recent excavations at the Suyukou site in northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region have unveiled porcelain wares ...

Set during the Xia dynasty, the first ever recorded dynasty in Chinese history. It is a period rife with influences of mythology and folklore since it's close to the beginning of time when Pangu was ...