Oracle bones. Bronze. Jade. Ancient cities. In the Yinxu Ruins, every artifact traces the roots of Chinese civilization. Step ...

Warmer waters in the Pacific Ocean may have brought devastating floods to the cradle of ancient Chinese civilization, according to a recent study in which its authors link three wildly different lines ...

One of the world's oldest surviving collections of writing, scratched into 'oracle bones' by Shang dynasty chroniclers more than three millennia ago, is finally giving up its secrets. Using a powerful ...

Evidence suggests that China's "cradle of civilization" experienced marked climate disasters and social upheavals during the mid-late Holocene (around 3,000 years ago). However, the direct causes and ...