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3000-year-old Tomb Found By Accident - From Xinhuanet, Chinese archaeologists accidentally discovered a cemetery that may include the oldest tomb ever discovered of the Western Zhou Dynasty (11th century to 771 BCE).
Archaeological Find May Change Chinese History - People's Daily reports that archaeologists have uncovered an ancient city site that thrived over 4,000 years ago in Taosi village, Shanxi Province.
China Imposes Great Wall Ban - From BBC, China says it is closing off vast sections of the Great Wall to tourists in an effort to protect it.
China's Oldest Post Office Found Along Silk Road - A report in XNA that a letter written about 2,000 years ago and never delivered has provided evidence of China's oldest post office at a historic site near the famous Dunhuang Mogao Grottos along the ancient Silk Road.
Chinese Pyramids - Hartwig Hausdorf, a researcher in Germany, sent over these photographs from his collection, taken during his 1994 trip to the Forbidden Zone in The Shensi Province in China.
Chinese Pyramids and Burial Mounds - Images of Chinese mounds.
Dadu - 3D computer recreation of Dadu, the capital city built by Khublai Khan.
Dafo - The worlds largest Buddha, in Leshan, China.
Experts Claim Discovery of Oldest Great Wall Section - From the People's Daily, oldest section of the Great Wall was built during ancient China's Chu Kingdom, during the Spring and Autumn Period (770-476 B.C.).
Few Tourists Will Gaze On Pyramid Nest in China - A report in Rocky Mountain News on Chinese pyramids.
Niya Yields Buried Secrets - From China Daily, in 1901, a British explorer named Marc Aurel Stein trekked into the ruins of the kingdom far out in the desert, and the world then heard for the first time the name of Niya, as dreamlike as the Uygur legend about it.
Origins in China - Paliolithic project in a cave site at Longyadong.
Palace or Castle of Dreams - From China Daily, recent archaeological finds have raised a shocking question: did the palace ever exist, or are both it and the fire a 2,200-year-old lie.
Prehistoric Chinese City Brought to Light - From Xinhua, archeologists excavate ruins of an ancient city from 3500 BCE, China's earliest.
Pyramids of China - Descriptions and images of several Chinese pyramids.
Shih Huang Ti - 3D computer recreation of the Imperial tomb of Shih Huang Ti.
Temple Gets New Overhaul - From Xinhuanet, an investment of nearly 300 million yuan, the repair project of the Successive Emperors Temple in Beijing was completed.
Yi-Lou River Survey - This project aims to articulate processes underlying the evolution of ancient societies in the Yiluo River valley, western Henan province, where the earliest Chinese states emerged.
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