"This discovery will significantly help the exploration of important issues such as the formation and development of the network-style layout of Erlitou urban centers, the content, characteristics ...

They are forming a map of China's more than 5,000 years of ... of Chinese civilization are now part of the collections at the Erlitou Relic Museum in Luoyang. Discovered in 1959 by historian ...

Aerial photo taken on Oct. 19, 2019 shows the Erlitou Relic Museum in Luoyang, central China's Henan Province. The Erlitou Relics date back to 3,500 to 3,800 years ago in ancient China's late Xia or ...

Erlitou in the heart of the Central China Plains is spread across some three square kilometres in Luoyang, Henan province. The site, dating back to 3,800 years ago, is believed to be the capital ...

Aerial photo taken on Oct. 19, 2019 shows the Erlitou Relic Museum in Luoyang, central China's Henan Province. The Erlitou Relic Museum, which exhibits the history of ancient China's first ...

This photo taken on Aug. 12, 2023 shows an exhibit at Erlitou Site Museum of the Xia Capital in Luoyang, central China's Henan Province. Museums in Henan Province have witnessed a large amount of ...

A visitor takes pictures of a ding exhibit, a tripod cooking vessel widely used in prehistoric China, at the Erlitou Relic Museum in Luoyang, central China's Henan Province, Oct. 19, 2019. The Erlitou ...

Zhao Haitao (center), leader of the archaeological team at the Erlitou site, and his colleagues check new findings on the site in 2024. [Photo provided to China Daily] More than 65 years after its ...