A drone photo shows a view of the Tuyugou Grottoes in Turpan, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region May 1, 2025.

Narrator: Over three and a half thousand years ago ancient China was ruled by a powerful ... The first Shang king was Cheng Tang who defeated the Xia dynasty in the Battle of Mingtiao.

Shao Kang, the seventh emperor of the Xia Dynasty, had been an official ... Some other vegetables are native to China, but they were not well known in ancient times. They became recognized only ...

Yungang's caverns have carvings of Central Asian merchants leading camel trains laden with silk, and Angkor Wat's stone walls depict Chinese traders with Khmer counterparts weighing fishery products — ...

ZHU XINGXIN/CHINA DAILY Li Xia, director of the Foreign Affairs ... of the Northern Wei Dynasty (386-534). The dynasty was established by the ancient ethnic group the Xianbei, which promoted ...

However, the most powerful reminder of the progression of time lies not in the transformation of color but in the visible ...

16th century to 11th century BC) and established the Western Zhou Dynasty ... China's archaeological studies," said Wang Wei, a veteran archaeologist at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. The ...