Editor's note: A national comprehensive research program, launched in 2002, to trace the origins of Chinese civilization, has led to the excavations and studies of key sites that are about 3,500 to ...

An enormous walled settlement topped with a stepped pyramid was recently found in China at a site called Shimao, and was originally mistaken for part of the infamous Great Wall. The massive pyramid, ...

A groundbreaking genetic study of China's Shimao ruins, an important prehistoric site located in Northwest China's Shaanxi Province, has provided definitive evidence that the core population of the ...

BEIJING, May 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A new book published in northwest China'sShaanxi Province has revealed key archaeological discoveries at China's Shimao ruins. According to Xiong Hui, director of ...

The origins, social structure, and cultural practices of the people of Shimao, a 4,000-year-old walled city in northern China, are revealed in Nature this week. The analysis of ancient DNA from people ...

A new study published in Nature on November 26 has shed light on the origins, population structures, and kinship systems of the people of Shimao—one of China's most significant late Neolithic ...

A museum dedicated to the Shimao culture dating back some 4,000 years opened to the public Wednesday in Shenmu City, northwest China's Shaanxi Province. Covering an area of 12,890 square meters, the ...

Archaeologists in China have unearthed what they think could be a portrait of a king carved into the foot of the Shimao Pyramid in the Shaanxi province. The sculpture is one of 70-some stone carvings ...