For the 16th-century cartographer Juan de la Cosa, the top of the map was west, in the direction of his first voyage with Christopher Columbus. Nearly 500 years later, Stuart McArthur of Melbourne, ...
Nearby, the Na Tcha Temple -- a tribute to the legendary figure Ne Zha, a demon-slaying hero depicted in the 16th-century Chinese classic "Journey to the West" -- underscores the harmonious ...
With most of the findings dating from the Byzantine period to the Second Temple period, or 1,500 years ago, they never expected to find the remains of a rare 16th-century Chinese bowl. How did it ...
Schloß Ahlden (25% buyer’s premium) near Hanover was presumably expecting more than the modest estimate of €500 for an 18th century Chinese doucai dish (diameter 8in/21cm) that was to become one of ...
The earliest archaeological evidence of a relationship between the land of Israel and China has been uncovered by chance in Jerusalem. A fragment of a porcelain bowl was found on Mount Zion during ...