Since the Warring States Period (475-221 BC), snakes were sometimes perceived as evil creatures which might disrupt the dead.

Among the first imperial mausoleums archaeologically excavated after 1949 are two Southern Tang mausoleums of the Five Dynasties (907-960), Li Bian's Qinling Mausoleum and Li Jing's Shunling ...

Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, established his capital in Nanjing (Chinese for southern capital). He ate mostly food cooked with the flavors of South China during his ...

Experts are particularly interested by two of the tombs, one from the Jing Dynasty and the other from the Southern Dynasty. There will be further research carried out on them thanks to their prize ...

Archaeological remains of a city in Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region are the earliest found so far in southern China, dating some 3,000 years to the early Shang dynasty (c1600-1050BC). A panel of ...