Chinese legend tells of a great flood, and how Emperor Yu drove back the floodwaters, founding the Xia dynasty and giving rise to Chinese civilization. Now an international scientific collaboration ...

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 roughly ...

CHINA’S leaders are immensely proud of their country’s ancient origins. President Xi Jinping peppers his speeches with references to China’s “5,000 years of history”. The problem is that ...

A Chinese study claims to have found the remnants of a powerful supernova explosion dating back four thousand years to the Xia dynasty, which could push back the history of supernova observation ...

A much bigger complex of Western Xia Mausoleums is expected to appear as its application for the world cultural heritage status gets underway. Dubbed as the "pyramids in the East", Western Xia ...

Chinese imperial food dates back to slave society. Ever since there were emperors and palaces, there has been imperial food, which was served mainly to the emperors, their wives and concubines, and ...