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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

An analysis of a 2,300-year-old text and coins has helped researchers decipher ancient recipes for bronze, including two linguistically elusive ingredients.The Kao Gong Ji, the oldest known technical ...

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.

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.

The little owl that could is back on display at the Minneapolis Institute of Art after a three-year hiatus. The 3,000-year-old bronze owl is actually a “zun” wine vessel. Nicknamed the Pillsbury Owl, ...

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THE missing ingredients of an ancient Chinese recipe for bronze may have been uncovered, revealing another level of sophistication in the practice of chemistry at the time. Kaogong Ji, a 2300-year-old ...