Courtesy of Taosi Site Museum What did dragon totems and musical instruments from more than 4,000 years ago look like? Were ...

The British Museum has received a donation of Chinese treasures worth more than $1 billion from the Sir Percival David ...

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 ...

Before the invention of paper, ancient Chinese recorded important texts on various materials such as tortoise shells, animal bones, and bronzewares. In the Shang Dynasty (c.1600BC-1046BC), bamboo and ...

Participants of the "Exploring China" Henan Tour admire a bronze ware at Henan Museum in ... but it's the first time to see ...

Over 400 foreign experts from 30 countries will participate in the first World Conference of Classics that is set to be held ...

Find out more in the Apply Now section. The MA Fashion Artefact course exists within the Craft Programme, in the School of Design and Technology (SDT) at London College of Fashion. The Programme also ...

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 ...

For a thorough analysis on the development of bronze workmanship during this time, see Su Rongyu, ‘Bronze-Casting Technology in the Late Shang Dynasty’, Mirroring China’s Past. Emperors, Scholars, and ...

According to legend, the first nine ding were cast by Yu the Great, founder of the Xia dynasty, and although archaeological evidence has yet to reveal bronze fangding from before the Shang dynasty, ...

the biggest in at least a decade for the British dynasty behind one of the world’s largest manufacturing fortunes.