2017 a good year for archaeology

Finds provide a clear profile of the country's development

Last year was a fruitful one for Chinese archaeologists.

New discoveries included the earliest wheat - from about 5,000 years ago - in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region; the country's biggest unearthed reservoir of horses and chariots used as funeral objects, in Henan province; and the remains of a Qin State kings' bathroom and other living facilities during the Warring States Period (475-221 BC).