In 2010, a bronze, owl-shaped vessel was unearthed within a Chinese tomb at the Daxinzhuang Ruins in Jinan, Shandong province. The vessel contained a clear liquid dating back over 3,000 years.

Narrator: Life was really different in the Shang dynasty to life today ... ceremonies which included ancestor worship. Decorated tombs were built for the kings, who were buried with carriages ...

For more than 3,000 years, China’s oldest-known distilled spirit remained hidden inside a bronze, owl-shaped vessel unearthed within a Shang Dynasty tomb. Discovered in 2010 in Jinan ...

Two of these were filled with limestone chippings; the other two have complex interiors and probably date to the 13th Dynasty. A long dromos leads 750 metres from the tomb enclosure to a mortuary ...

is an ancient capital city of the late Shang Dynasty (1300 - 1046 BC). It testifies to the golden age of early Chinese culture, crafts and sciences, a time of great prosperity of the Chinese Bronze ...

According to inscriptions on bronze vessels and oracle bones, the tomb belonged to Fu Hao, the beloved queen of King Wu Ding of the Shang Dynasty. The Tomb of Fu Hao contained not only jade ...