Country · 2 places dug

The history of China

7 digs · 61 sourced records · last reviewed 26 September 2026

Strata has dug 2 places in China — Beijing, Huairou: 7 spots of ground, 61 sourced records, from antiquity to the modern era. Each place below is a page of its own, assembled from what happened on particular ground there, with every record linked to its source.

Places dug in China

The history of BeijingEmperors, priests and a Mongol prince, filed under a subdistrict — Beijing's ground holds a Jin dynasty capital burned in 1215, a Ming temple built to store scripture beside the imperial canal, an air force hospital raised from open ground in 1950, and a radio university founded in 1978 to teach a country radio lessons it could not otherwise reach. 5 digs
56 records
The history of HuairouHuairou is a mountainous district north of Beijing, built on ridges of ancient Neoproterozoic bedrock in the Yan Mountains. 2 digs
5 records