Oracle bones were often made from tortoise shells, as in this photograph, and from the shoulder blades of oxen. According to archaeologists, a fortune teller would carve a question into the bone with ...
Courtesy of Taosi Site Museum What did dragon totems and musical instruments from more than 4,000 years ago look like? Were ...
More than 40 foreign experts in classical studies from 13 countries visited Henan's heritage sites, Longmen Grottoes and the ...
The British Museum has received a donation of Chinese treasures worth more than $1 billion from the Sir Percival David ...
Jordan Chiles is not done fighting for her bronze medal. In her first TV interview since the Paris Olympics, Chiles spoke about the past few months on the "Today" show, addressing the ...
Zodiac creatures are represented in artifacts ... Bronze Age, and “a creature called the dragon has been in the Chinese art vocabulary for thousands of years,” says Wilson. The commanding version of ...
One of the earliest forms of Chinese writing is preserved in the simple inscriptions on bronze vessels from the late Shang period. Integrally cast ... During the succeeding Zhou dynasty, written ...