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Advertisement: Stunning capital of Xia Dynasty unearthed ( 2003-11-11 10:26) (China.org.cn) Chinese archaeologists recently found a large-scale building foundation in Erlitou Ruins of Yanshi ...
About 3,000 years ago, a Chinese woman had her foot cut off. The amputation was conducted as punishment for committing a ...
The cradle of Chinese civilization was long considered to be the region around the middle Yellow River. ... The Xia dynasty is traditionally believed to have emerged about 4,000 years ago.
08/04/2016 | 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 ...
The dates for the flood places the start of the Xia dynasty later than previously thought, in 1900 BC, rather than 2000 BC or earlier, as some timelines suggest.
Ancient Chinese legends tell of a catastrophic flood along the Yellow River that led to the founding of the Xia dynasty, roughly 4,000 years ago.
Researchers have provided geological evidence for China's 'Great Flood,' a disastrous event on the Yellow River from which the Xia dynasty is thought to have been born. The flood occurred in ...
Early Chinese histories tell of a hero named Yu the Great who founded the Xia Dynasty, the country’s first. According to legend, the region had been plagued by floods for decades, and Yu rose to ...
Chinese archaeologists recently found a large-scale building foundation in Erlitou Ruins of Yanshi, central China's Henan Province, which belongs to the later period of Xia Dynasty. The discovery ...