The ritual use of jade dominated China for millennia, and Qing rulers preserved the tradition, using jade for royal documents ...

[Photo by Jiang Dong/China Daily] When Emperor Qianlong (1711-99 ... Items ranging from royal seals and ritual artifacts to carvings and miscellaneous articles of daily use demonstrate the ...

as evident in the diplomatic document titled “Pros & Cons of the Emperor’s Visit to China at the Present Stage.” The document was dated July 29, 1991, stamped with a seal for “secret ...

This particular artefact has now become one of the most important imperial seals ever to be found in China. Based around the excavated site of Banpo, this site brings the Neolithic settlement back ...

Chinese archaeologists have reconstructed 6,000 composite armour scales unearthed from the tomb of Liu He – the deposed ninth emperor of the Han dynasty (202 BC – 220 AD) – in the first ...

Chinese archaeologists have discovered a Western Han Dynasty (206BC-AD25) marquis cemetery and nearly 700 other tombs in ...