Archaeologists are gripped by something new about the Great Wall of China, which spans 12,000 miles and was constructed over ...

Thanks to high tech dating methods, scientists have been able to prove that this section dates back to the late Western Zhou Dynasty, or 1046 BCE to 771 BCE. These findings come from the very ...

UD doctoral student Tianyu Zhou is pictured on the right using a shovel to remove snow that covers the sea ice during a ...

A graveyard of 33 small-scale tombs for commoners dating to the middle of the Western Zhou Dynasty was found north of the city. Ning Chao, a researcher at Peking University, and his team are ...

Just over 3,000 years ago, the newly established Western Zhou Dynasty (c. 11th century-771 BC) included present-day Beijing area under the rule of a united central kingship for the first time.