Experts think that Hongshan craftsmen made some of the earliest known jade artifacts in history. The jade artifact is six inches long, four inches wide and one inch thick. Xinhua In April ...

The Zhongqiu Festival, or Mid-Autumn Festival, is celebrated with a rich tapestry of religious and cultural art forms, each carrying deep symbolic meanings.

At a Neolithic site in northern China, archaeologists have unearthed a large jade dragon inside a 5,000-year-old tomb. The dragon was one of more than 100 artifacts that have been discovered in ...

Jade artifacts used in sacrifice are unearthed in July at the Yuanbaoshan archaeological site. [Photo/China Daily] Three jade dragons of different colors and sizes, and each around 5,000 years old ...

Archaeologists have found the largest ever jade "dragon" made by the Neolithic Hongshan culture on record. The artifact is 6.2 inches long and 3.7 inches wide (15.8 by 9.5 centimeters) and was ...

Archaeologists exploring the Sanxingdui ruins in southwest China have reported unearthing over 10,000 relics and artifacts ..

What jobs did the Shang people do? In the Shang Dynasty jobs included jade carvers, bronze workers, craftspeople, priests, soldiers and kings. Which would you like to have been? Who was Fu Hao?

The earliest extant examples of Chinese writing are the inscriptions that appear on so-called oracle bones (animal bones and turtle shells) and on bronze vessels, the oldest of which date back to the ...

Artifacts offer a window into the past, giving us information about people and cultures that existed centuries to millennia ago. From hoards of gold coins found hidden beneath floorboards to ...

The jade artifacts, found at the Yuanbaoshan archaeological site in Aohan Banner in the city of Chifeng during a four-month excavation work that began in May, include a palm-size, emerald green ...