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 ...

Bronze - Late Shang dynasty, about 1100 BC This form ... Start of the development of southern China. Tang Dynasty unites China for nearly three centuries, in what is seen as the second high ...

A piece of bronzeware unearthed in China in 2010 has finally been opened. The vessel, which dates back to the Shang dynasty, contained a liquid that (upon analysis) was revealed to be distilled ...

China entered the Bronze Age around the 16th century BC ... Some people believe it dates back to the early period of the Shang Dynasty, while some others regard it as a bronze ling of the Xia ...

The earliest known Chinese writing was also found ... politics and religion under the Shang dynasty. This is an axe made from bronze. It would have had a wooden handle and been used by the Shang ...

These are also called Yin ruins as the Shang Dynasty ... Chinese script have been unearthed on the site, providing scholars with valuable historic and linguistic information. Large numbers of ...

Three-part bronze snake discovered from the Sanxingdui Site in Guanghan, Sichuan, dating back to the Shang Dynasty. [Photo provided to China Daily] For example, there is a bronze sword from the ...

For instance, students might begin a unit on the early dynasties in China by comparing (either on the computer in the classroom or in a visit to a museum) a Shang dynasty ritual bronze vessel from the ...

Chinese gymnast Shang Chunsong shed a tear. She had helped China bring home the bronze in the team competition, but she was unable to do the same for herself, taking fourth place after Germany’s ...