THE missing ingredients of an ancient Chinese recipe for bronze may have been uncovered ... their hands dirty probably couldn’t read or write so they wouldn’t have been able to record ...

The phrase “Chinese Bronze” is, for most, synonymous with the austere vessels used in ancient state rituals or ancestor ...

The objects, more than 150 in total, come from five different Chinese museums that specialize in Bronze Age archaeology ... historians were delighted to write that down—but what we were missing ...

The discovery also reflected China's ancient bronze ware culture in its heyday. The National Museum of Chinese Writing in Anyang, where the bones and tortoise shells inscribed with the earliest ...

Burial goods included decorated bronze ritual vessels, jade and bone carvings and ... at Yin Xu provide tangible evidence of the early history of the system of Chinese writing and language, ancient ...

Inscriptions on oracle bones found at the Yinxu Ruins bear invaluable testimony to the development of one of the world's oldest writing ... bronze culture of the Yinxu Ruins has distinct Chinese ...

A bronze owl statue Photo ... these bones had inscriptions upon them, the earliest Chinese writing discovered so far, which has helped provide a clear record of events, both major and small ...

Chinese Zhou ritual vessel (made around 1050 ... At this date, any formal writing is prestigious, but writing in bronze carries a very particular authority. The inscription at the bottom of ...

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 ...

The auction of an antique Chinese bronze ritual wine vessel at Christie’s Asian Art Week in New York next week has caught the attention of well-heeled collectors across China. “It’s an ...