According to tradition, Lao Tzu was a contemporary of Confucius and worked as an archivist in the Imperial Library of the Zhou Dynasty court during the 6th century BC. Confucius intentionally or ...

Archaeologists are gripped by something new about the Great Wall of China, which spans 12,000 miles and was constructed over ...

The pits have well-preserved evidence of bronzeware and ceramics from the Early Western Zhou dynasty. Though a far smaller tomb ... of the great Chinese philosophers of antiquity, including Confucius, ...

Recent studies now suggest the wall dates back about 300 years earlier than past estimates, reaching as far back as the Western Zhou Dynasty (1046 ... BCE)—a time when Confucius himself ...