Featuring 38 tombs which are believed to belong to nobles from the Western Zhou Dynasty (1,046BC-771BC ... into the technological advancements and social hierarchy in the Western Zhou period.

The ancestors to whom a Shang or Zhou dynasty king made sacrifices were his patrilineal ... differences are part of the natural order of the universe, not part of the social institutions artificially ...

A tomb of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty in Shuozhou, Shanxi province. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn] The Shanxi Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology published new archaeological ...

China's cultural authority has successfully retrieved the stolen and lost Western Zhou (1046BC-771BC ... to communicate the owners' political and social achievements to their ancestors and ...