Thousands of years ago, Chinese musicians worked with foundry technicians to cast matched sets of bronze bells of different sizes to ... bells in the collections of the National Museum of Asian Art.

Rich families in Shang China would hold banquets ... in contrast with the art of the ancient Middle East, where agriculture and people are more common. Bronze - Late Shang dynasty, about 1100 ...

Demon Force Photo: Courtesy of Douban Amid the bustling Spring Festival holiday, a curious trend emerged in Central China's ...

A 2,500-year-old Chinese sword discovered in 1965 remains razor-sharp and pristine today, seemingly defying the natural laws of decay that typically ravage ancient bronze weapons. The Sword of ...

Photo by Jiang Dong/China Daily] Embracing the Spring, Celebrating the Year of Snake, an exhibition that opened at the National Museum of China in Beijing on Wednesday, is not only a warm-up for ...

Why the focus on bronze? In the ancient world, few materials offered the advantages of this metal, says Anna A Slaczka, curator of South Asian Art at Rijksmuseum. The alloy (generally 88% copper ...

Ancient Chinese Bronze art reached its climax in the late Shang (c.16 century-11th century BC) and early Zhou (c.11th century-256 BC) dynasties in China, when ritual vessels in a wide variety of ...

Poly MGM Museum celebrates seafaring heritage with an inaugural exhibition that brings together various rare artefacts, ...