Given the high material and human costs of long-distance travel, only the most valuable commodities were transported along ...

Horned and bearded, with flowing manes on the back and upwardly curled tufts of hair sprouting from the ankles, these ...

Ancient Chinese believed that jade could preserve the body. If jade is placed in all bodily orifices, the dead would be immortal. Liu's jade suit consisted of 2,498 jade pieces and 1,100 grams of ...

Small jade ornaments were scattered inside ... Li Xinwei, deputy director of the Institute of Ancient History at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said, “The ancient residents were clearly ...

OVER 100 jade carvings are on display at the National Art Gallery in an exhibition held to celebrate the 50th anniversary of ...

The astonishing Chinese collections in the Palace museums ... "This stand is made of ancient jade, but the jade bowl that once went with it is long gone. As one cannot show a stand without a ...

Gemstones, valued for their beauty and rarity, also held deep spiritual and cultural significance in ancient civilizations.

This jade bi, already over three thousand years old when the Emperor decided to study it, is a fine, plain disc with a hole in the centre, of a type often found in ancient Chinese tombs.