The Minneapolis Institute of Art, or MIA, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, brought a collection of ancient Chinese bronzes to the ...

One of the world’s greatest collections of ancient Chinese bronzes outside of China is on view for the first time in NYC at China Institute Gallery.

Bronze - Late Shang dynasty ... After a brief period of instability, Liu Bang founds the Han dynasty. Han Dynasty: first durable state governing the entire Chinese heartland, ushers in first ...

In the Han Dynasty compasses consisted of a bronze on which 24 directions were carved and a rod made from a natural magnet. Such devices were in use until the eighth century. In the Song Dynasty ...

Archaeologists in China have brewed distilled wine in a replica of a 2,000-year-old bronze vessel unearthed ... the deposed ninth emperor of the Western Han dynasty (202 BC–9 AD), which is ...

Han dynasty armor was composed from a single-material ... Exceptionally, whoever crafted the military garment used iron, bronze, and leather lacquered materials. Furthermore, archaeologists ...

Earliest records show a spoon shaped compass made of lodestone or magnetite ore, referred to as a "South-pointer" dating back to sometime during the Han Dynasty (2nd century BCE to 2nd century CE).

NEW YORK, March 5 (Xinhua) -- Over 70 Chinese ritual bronzes from 12th century BC in the Shang dynasty to 1st-2nd century AD in the Han dynasty will be on display at China Institute Gallery in Lower ...

a bronze container made during the Spring and Autumn Period (770BC-476BC) as well as an Eastern Han Dynasty (25-220) stone relief and a gold seal dating back to the Jin period (1115-1234).