Periods of peace and wealth allowed people to invest more in the afterlife, leaving behind a lasting record of cultural and ...

Tombs scattered across China, built between the 4,000-year old Xia Dynasty and the modern era, reflect the political and ...

Including the Paleolithic Tongtiandong site in Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, nearly 80 archaeological ...

On the fertile land of Shanxi, where the essence of Chinese civilization thrives, lie the most magnificent codes of ancient Chinese architecture. From the towering Buddhist temples to the exquisite ...

Photo by MICHAEL RHYS CARD/CHINA DAILY] At Jinci Temple, near Taiyuan, the Sage Mother Hall rises from a grove of ancient ...

Florian Urban does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

Though architectural history courses and texts now feature prehistoric, native, and non-Western architecture, as a rule, time spent on the rich, longstanding tradition of East Asian building arts is ...

International volunteers participate in a summer camp on architectural heritage conservation in Shanxi province's Pingyao Ancient City.XINHUA TAIYUAN — Amid the scorching summer heat of North China, ...

While two of the tombs were robbed, one was left untouched, and it contained a box full of glazed pottery, among other goods. Chinese Academy of Social Science’s Institute of Archaeology ...

Liu Jiakun. Image © Tom Welsh for The Hyatt Foundation:The Pritzker Architecture Prize I first went to China in 2002, a year after the International Olympic ...