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 ...

Archaeologists have uncovered three ancient tombs in China with dozens of "precious" funerary relics. Intriguingly, two of the tombs were found to contain bronze seals featuring the surname "Huan," ...

An analysis of a 2,300-year-old text and coins has helped researchers decipher ancient recipes for bronze, including two linguistically elusive ingredients. An analysis of a 2,300-year-old text and ...

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

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.

These exquisite jade burial suits were just a rumor—until the discovery of an ancient Chinese tomb Unraided crypts are hard to come by. And yet in 1968, soldiers stumbled upon the imperial family ...