{"id":152216,"date":"2026-05-30T10:00:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T10:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=152216"},"modified":"2026-05-30T10:00:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T10:00:06","slug":"chinese-archaeologist-who-discovered-5000-year-old-city-pleads-guilty-to-corruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=152216","title":{"rendered":"Chinese archaeologist who discovered 5,000-year-old city pleads guilty to corruption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostLiu Bin, a Chinese archaeologist credited with discovering a vast 5,000-year-old prehistoric city that rewrote the history of Chinese civilisation, has pleaded guilty to taking bribes and embezzlement.<br \/>\nThe celebrated academic, who discovered the Liangzhu ruins \u2013 a Unesco World Heritage site in eastern China\u2019s Zhejiang province \u2013 and long oversaw its excavation and heritage nomination, accepted the charges, according to news outlet Southern Weekly.<br \/>\nDuring a court hearing in Zhejiang on May 20,&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3355242\/chinese-archaeologist-who-discovered-5000-year-old-city-pleads-guilty-corruption?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostLiu Bin, a Chinese archaeologist credited with discovering a vast 5,000-year-old prehistoric city that rewrote the history of Chinese civilisation, has pleaded guilty to&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152216"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=152216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=152216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=152216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=152216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}