An axe-like iron object pulled from a sacrificial pit at the Sanxingdui archaeological site in Southwest China has been identified as the earliest known meteoritic iron artifact of the Chinese Bronze ...

Have you ever wondered why Chinese visual culture is full of images of dragons, phoenixes and other mythical creatures? Archaeologists certainly have. For centuries, they searched in vain for their ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A bronze mask against a gray background. The mysterious origins of ancient bronzeware found in a part of northern China may have ...

Scientists confirm a Bronze Age iron artifact from Sanxingdui was made from extraterrestrial material, revealing ancient ...

In a study published in Archaeological Research in Asia, Dr. Haichao Li and a team of researchers analyzed the earliest ...

Unknown artist, "Zun wine vessel in the shape of an owl" (13th–12th century BCE), bronze (all images courtesy Minneapolis Institute of Art) The artifact is a zun, a bronze container for wine from the ...

Lent by the Minneapolis Institute of Art, the bronzes range from a wine vessel depicting a double owl to a celestial horse sculpture, all illustrating how early humans honored ancestors and deities.

Bronze Age pottery unearthed in northwest China has revealed the secret to making red rice wine that was ceremonially consumed in the region in the second millennium BC. Previous research has ...

Check out Lark E. Mason's appraisal of a 19th C. Chinese bronze Guanyin figure in Vintage Hartford 2023, Hour 1. Funding for ANTIQUES ROADSHOW is provided by Ancestry and American Cruise Lines.

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