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This summer, a new exhibit opened at the National Museum of China in Beijing, on the eastern side of Tiananmen Square. Titled “Oriental Homeland: A Million-Year Journey through Human History in China,” the paleolithic fossils and artifacts on display are accompanied by an explicit, political message.

The Chinese introduction, conspicuously missing from the museum’s English website, devotes the first paragraph to a 2020 speech by Xi Jinping, in which he declares:

The latest archeological results prove that our country is the ancestral homeland of Oriental humans; it parallels Africa in being one of the earliest birthplaces of humans.

While debates around human origins remain unsettled, Xi’s statement contradicts scientific consensus.

Yet this attempt to claim million-year-old bones is part of Beijing’s effort to control history, and to construct an unbroken myth of the Chinese nation beginning in time immemorial. In this narrative, the Communist Party’s path to power was propelle