The discovery could solve a tragic mystery from the Qin Dynasty.
Unknown artist, “Zun wine vessel in the shape of an owl” (13th–12th century BCE), bronze (all images courtesy Minneapolis Institute of Art) The artifact is a zun, a bronze container for wine from the ...
Archaeologists have uncovered three ancient tombs in China with dozens of "precious" funerary relics. Intriguingly, two of the tombs were found to contain bronze seals featuring the surname "Huan," ...
Hong Kong (CNN) — A golden face with patinaed turquoise eyes stares out of the darkness. Illuminated around it stand three other bronze heads — some have flat tops, others round — all looked over by a ...
A new digital archive is making thousands of mysterious ancient Chinese emblematic symbols accessible to anyone with an internet connection. Yuwei Zhou, a PhD candidate in the Department of East Asian ...
A recent study published in the journal Archaeometry investigates the recycling of Han Chinese bronze mirrors into Japanese imitation mirrors during the Kofun period (c. 300–538 CE). Lead author Mark ...
Su, Rongyu. 2003. "A history of the study of bronze casting in ancient China." In Scientific research in the field of Asian art : proceedings of the first Forbes symposium at the Freer gallery of art.
The chance rediscovery of the ancient Chinese Sanxingdui civilization is legendary in and of itself. In 1929, an unsuspecting peasant in Sichuan province stumbled upon a cache of jade relics while ...
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