China Daily13d
Digging into Beijing's birth
New discoveries at Liulihe provide fresh clues about the origin of the city that eventually became China's capital, Wang ...
PBS8y
The Rest of the World at the time of Classical Greece
China: In the far Eastern corner of China the Zhou Dynasty, a feudal-type society based ... Originating in 1027 BC the Zhou had been an amalgam of city-states that had become progressively ...
Technology reveals family lineage, dietary habits of inhabitants from 2,700 years ago at Beijing's Liulihe relic site
Recent excavations at the Liulihe relic site in Beijing have uncovered significant discoveries, including the precise ...
New archaeological discoveries in Shandong push back Great Wall origin by 300 years
The newly unearthed ruins in the Changqing district of Jinan, East China's Shandong Province, reveal that the earliest known sections of the Great Wall date back to the late Western Zhou Dynasty (1046 ...
Euronews28d
Archaeologists discover oldest section of China’s Great Wall, dating back nearly 3,000 years
The remarkable find, located in Changqing District, Jinan, Shandong Province, dates to the late Western Zhou ... Qin Dynasty. The team also identified the ancient settlement of Pingyin City ...
CCTV4y
Zhao Kuangyin
In A.D. 960, Zhao Kuangyin, commander of the Later Zhou's imperial army, suddenly launched a mutiny at Chenqiao near Kaifeng. His troops stormed into the city of Kaifeng. Zhao Kuangyin became the ...
BBC7y
Episode Transcript – Episode 23 - Chinese Zhou Ritual Vessel
was toppled by a new dynasty, the Zhou. The Zhou came from the west - from the steppes of central Asia. Like the Kushites of Sudan who conquered Egypt at roughly the same time, the Zhou were a ...