Ancient sites in China

Discover 8 ancient sites in China, including Banpo Neolithic Village, Guyaju Caves and Longmen Grottoes, and more. Each has its story, photos, location and games to test what you learned.

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Banpo Neolithic VillageRound houses, a ring ditch, painted fish bowls and children buried in jars: a millet farmers' village on Xi'an's edge, 6,000 years old.
Guyaju CavesHundreds of rooms cut into a granite cliff north of Beijing, with stone beds and stoves, and no record of who carved them.
Longmen GrottoesA 17-meter stone Buddha and more than 100,000 smaller figures, cut into the cliffs of the Yi River for Northern Wei and Tang patrons.
Sanguanmiao Han Dynasty TombsTwo Eastern Han tombs found under a Shandong village pond, carved with ram heads, kitchens, chariots and the moon rabbit.
SanxingduiBronze faces with jutting eyes, a 2.6-meter figure and gold masks, broken and buried in Sichuan some 3,000 years ago.
Terracotta Army, Mausoleum of the First Qin EmperorThousands of life-size clay soldiers, each with its own face, buried in battle order beside the sealed tomb of China's First Emperor.
Yuanmingyuan Summer PalaceThe Qing emperors' Garden of Perfect Brightness, looted and burned in 1860, where marble ruins of European palaces still stand.
Zhoukoudian - Peking Man SiteA collapsed cave on Dragon Bone Hill where Peking Man lived some 770,000 years ago, and whose fossils vanished in 1941.

Sites in China