Archaeology
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- Exploring Ancient Salt Production Sites in China
- From Backdirt, Joint Project by UCLA and Peking University traces the origins of this early commodity.
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- Mysterious Mummies of China
- Articles at NOVA Online giving further information on the 3000 year old Tarum Mummies.
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- Chinese Made First Use of Diamond
- From the BBC, Stone Age craftsmen in China were polishing objects using diamond 2,000 years before anyone else had the same idea. (May 17, 2005)
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- Ancient musical instruments unearthed in E. China
- 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. (April 11, 2005)
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- Spiral Ring Reveals Ancient Complex Machines
- From New Scientist, distinctive spiral patterns carved into a small jade ring show that China was using complex machines more than 2500 years ago. (June 04, 2004)
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- Niya Yields Buried Secrets
- From China Daily, in 1901, a British explorer named Marc Aurel Stein trekked into the ruins of the kingdom far out in the desert, and the world then heard for the first time the name of Niya, as dreamlike as the Uygur legend about it. (March 12, 2004)
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- Palace or Castle of Dreams
- From China Daily, recent archaeological finds have raised a shocking question: did the palace ever exist, or are both it and the fire a 2,200-year-old lie. (March 04, 2004)
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- Scientist Challenges Interpretation of New Find, the Oldest Primate fossil Ever Discovered
- From EurekaAlert, a skull and jawbones recently found in China is the oldest well-preserved primate fossil ever discovered and the best evidence of the presence of early primates in Asia. (December 23, 2003)
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- China Imposes Great Wall Ban
- From BBC, China says it is closing off vast sections of the Great Wall to tourists in an effort to protect it. (August 01, 2003)
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- China's Oldest Grotto Grave Unearthed in SW China
- 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. (July 24, 2003)
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- 1,700-year-old Legal Document Found in NW Province
- From the Peoples daily, a incomplete document dating back 1,700 years just has been unearthed in Gansu Province, providing a valuable clue for archaeologists on the long-lost Criminal Law of the imperial Jin Dynasty, 265-420BCE. (December 10, 2002)
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- China's Boat-building Dates Back 7,500 Years
- 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. (November 21, 2002)
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- China Had Express Post in 221 BCE
- From CNN, China had an express postal service as long ago as 221 BCE, according to archaeologists studying recently discovered Imperial documents. (August 02, 2002)
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- Ancient Civilization Existed in South China: Findings
- From the People's Daily, archaeological findings prove that civilization existed in Shenzhen, now a coastal boomtown in south China's Guangdong Province, as early as 3,500 years ago. (May 04, 2002)
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- Earliest Presence of Humans in East Asia
- From BBC, man entered northern China as long as 1.36 million years ago, according to new research. (September 27, 2001)
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- People's Daily - Archaeological Find May Change Chinese History
- A report on archaeologists uncovering an ancient city site that thrived over 4,000 years ago in Taosi Village, Shanxi Province. (August 04, 2000)