While recent discoveries have complicated the early history of China, solid evidence still points to Chinese civilisation beginning during the Shang dynasty ... made of bronze, but also other ...

The Bronze Age dynasty is also the first Chinese royal line backed by historical evidence. Among the finds were nine tombs of high-ranking nobility from the late Shang dynasty, the largest burial ...

According to the Japanese Sinologist Hayashi Minao, the essence of the animal faces and patterns found on bronzes from the Shang dynasty lies in their artistic abstraction of the natural world, which ...

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 ...

The site is one of the largest ever discovered dating from China's early Shang Dynasty. When you purchase ... with the discovery of the ruins of a complete Bronze Age town in the area.

The site, which spans 11 hills and is situated today in Shaanxi province, was home to a regional power during the Shang dynasty, a Bronze Age period running from 1600 to 1046 B.C.E. It has been ...

The history of the Shang Dynasty (c.1600BC-1046BC) dating back to more than 3,000 years ago also encapsulates the glorious history of China's bronze ware. Surrounding the Yellow River, this ...