The Center for the Research of Ancient Civilizations at Henan University was founded in December 2017 and was set up on the Ming Lun campus. It is an academic institution mainly relying on the Department of Archaeology and Museology of the School of History and Culture, which is to explore ancient civilizations.

    There are more than 40 full-time and part-time researchers in the Center now. Wei Wang, the Distinguished Professor of Henan University, Member of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and the Director of the Chinese Society of Archaeology, is the director of the center.

    Based on the researchers of archaeology and related disciplines of Henan University, associating with the domestic and international scholars who have studied the origin of ancient civilizations, the purpose of the center is to carry on a comprehensive comparative study of the origin, development process, background and mechanism of the ancient civilizations in the world, and then to discuss the law of the development of human history.

    The main task of the center is to conduct a comparative study of the world bronze civilization on the basis of in-depth exploration of China's early civilization. The research subjects are including Environment and Civilization, Agriculture and Civilization, Civilization and Craft Specialization, Urbanization and Civilization, Trade and Civilization, Primitive Religion and Civilization, Prehistoric Art and Civilization, Regional Activities and Civilization, Social Differentiation and Civilization, State and Civilization, Dissemination of System and Civilization, Social Governance and Civilization, War and the Formation of Civilization, and the Technology and Civilization.

    The Center for the Research of Ancient Civilizations at Henan University sets footholds in Henan province and faces the world, adhering to the concept of openness, inclusiveness, sharing and win-win cooperation, will cooperate with relevant academic institutions at home and abroad to build itself into an academic highland of comparative archaeological research.