By European standards, these ancient Chinese bronze bells are enormous. Nothing on this scale would be cast in Europe until the Middle Ages, over fifteen hundred years later. But the role of bells ...

UPPER EAST SIDE, NY — Bronze vessels were emblems of power and ritual in ancient China, and from the 1100s-1900s, the art ...

Narrator: Over three and a half thousand years ago ancient China was ruled by a powerful family of kings ... Narrator: During the Shang period, bronze was the most important metal, weapons, armour and ...

Lunar soil samples collected by China's Chang'e-5 and Chang'e-6 missions from the moon displayed at the China Pavilion 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 Mark ...

"One of the most distinctive features of Chinese bronze craftsmanship is the use of piece-mold casting. Unlike Western ...

The introduction of metal brought about the tongnao (a bronze percussion instrument ... With the introduction of Buddhism into China after the Qin Dynasty, ancient bells gradually became important ...