Scientists Deciphered 3,000-Year-Old ‘Oracle Bones’—and Found Evidence of an Ancient Disaster

Combining the writing on the bones with paleoclimate reconstructions, the team found how typhoon activity helped shift the ...
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"It's a difficult question": Why researchers are divided over the age and ancestry of these ancient Chinese skulls

Human evolution is a fiddly business, and few fossils encapsulate that more than two skulls unearthed in Hubei Province, ...
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Oracle bones suggest 3,000-year-old typhoons hit ancient China

Inscriptions carved into animal bones more than 3,000 years ago by Shang dynasty diviners contain direct evidence of ...

An unlikely set of clues helps reconstruct ancient Chinese disasters

Warmer waters in the Pacific Ocean may have brought devastating floods to the cradle of ancient Chinese civilization, ...

Jar burials: a glimpse into ancient China’s compassion, funeral practices for infant deaths

New study indicates Neolithic cultures in China may have separated graves of perinatal infants; different treatment than older children.

Ancient Chinese people sentenced to flogging could hire substitutes to endure punishment for a fee

In ancient China there was a unique and quirky profession: if someone committed a crime and was sentenced to flogging, they could hire another person to take the punishment on their behalf. During the ...

UJ becomes Africa’s sole home for ancient Chinese paintings

The University of Johannesburg is the only African university selected to house the Comprehensive Collection of Ancient Chinese Paintings, a scholarly archive spanning more than a millennium of ...
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Ancient Chinese poetry reveals the steady decline of freshwater porpoise populations

A close-up of a smiling Yangtze finless porpoise at the Baiji Dolphinarium of the Institute of Hydrobiology. (Wang Chaoqun/Chinese Academy of Sciences) (CN) — The ever-smiling Yangtze finless porpoise ...