Rich families in Shang China would hold banquets ... in contrast with the art of the ancient Middle East, where agriculture and people are more common. Bronze - Late Shang dynasty, about 1100 ...

The Minneapolis Institute of Art, or MIA, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, brought a collection of ancient Chinese ... unearthed over China's vast territory. The people of the Bronze Age of China ...

By European standards, these ancient Chinese bronze bells are enormous ... the revolutionaries, the people who blamed Confucianism for the decline of China in the previous two hundred years ...

It was an instrument for labouring people to play after work. The introduction of metal brought about the tongnao (a bronze ... of Buddhism into China after the Qin Dynasty, ancient bells ...

Known for her military prowess and influential role in the ancient ... bronze owl wine vessels that belonged to her. In the 1970s, an archaeological discovery was made in Anyang in Central China ...

A recent study published in the journal Archaeometry investigates the recycling of Han Chinese bronze mirrors into ... a predictive tool for investigating ancient recycling practices.