A 5,000-year-old brewery has been unearthed in China. Archaeologists uncovered ancient “beer-making tool kits” in underground rooms built between 3400 and 2900 B.C. Discovered at a dig site in the...
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Ancient Chinese tea bowls might hold the recipe for a rare form of iron oxide that scientists have had a hard time making in the lab. Pure epsilon-phase iron oxide...
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The Asian Art Museum announced today the appointment of Dr. Robert Mintz as the museum’s new Deputy Director, Art & Programs, a key leadership position responsible for managing the curatorial, conservation...
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An 11th Century letter has set a new record price for a work of Chinese calligraphy, fetching 207m yuan ($32m; £22m) at an auction in Beijing. The letter is the...
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Christie’s are to sell another major slice of deaccessioned material from the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, just under a year after they held a...
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Marlborough Gallery, New York, announces Xu Lei: New Works, an exhibition of works in Chinese ink and mineral pigments on silk by Xu Lei. The exhibition, which opened on May...
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