Have you ever wondered why Chinese visual culture is full of images of dragons, phoenixes and other mythical creatures? Archaeologists certainly have. For centuries, they searched in vain for their ...

A painted drum carved with phoenixes and tigers (circa 300 B.C.E.) Asian Art Museum China’s history is famously rife with mythical imagery—such as dragons, phoenixes and tigers—and historians have ...

In 1984, a team of archaeologists opened the tomb of a minor nobleman in the Shang dynasty capital of Yinxu, in what is today the central province of Henan. When they reached the burial chamber’s ...

Ancient China began as a group of isolated communities during the Stone Age and eventually grew into a formidable empire. Ancient Chinese people developed their own writing system and several famous ...

This influential ancient monster from Chinese mythology predates the written word. This influential ancient monster from Chinese mythology predates the written word. Inspired by ancient bronze and ...