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Main | Other Chinese Web Sites Chinese Cultural Studies: Images This page contains a summary of all the picture files available on this Brooklyn College Core 9 Chinese Culture Web site, along with their sources. The images are divided into the following categories Maps Archaeology Art Divinities People Historical Sites Historical Illustrations Technology Customs Stereotypes Middle East Images ...

Museum of Qin Terra-cotta Warriors and Horses is one of the most famous attractions in China.

Zheng He [Cheng Ho] was a comtemporary of Columbus. While Columbus went from Europe to America, Cheng Ho sailed from China to places in South Pacific, Indian Ocean, Persian Gulf, and Africa and possibly America some 80 years before him.

DUNHUANG Caves of the Singing Sands Buddhist Art from the Silk Road text by Roderick Whitfield; photographs by Seigo Otsuka Textile & Art Publications, 1996 Please click on each of the illustrations on this page to view larger-scale images and extracts from the text View of the Mogao cliff face - Introduction THE CAVE TEMPLES The Mogao cave temples near the town of Dunhuang, at the edge of the ...

When these pyramids are mapped, we just may find that some are aligned to constellations important to the ancient Chinese, much like the Giza pyramids are aligned to the three belt stars of the constellation Orion. ---- Laura Lee Rocky Mountain News Article from 1947 ANCIENT PYRAMIDS IN CHINA Hartwig Hausdorf, a researcher in Germany, sent over these photographs from his collection, taken during ...

Objects & Commentary Late Prehistoric China Bronze Age China Chu and Other Cultures Early Imperial China Teaching Activities Resources Chronology Pronunciation Guide/Glossary These teaching materials were developed in conjunction with the exhibition The Golden Age of Chinese Archaeology: Celebrated Discoveries from The People's Republic of China, which is no longer on view at the National ...

Welcome to the Journal of Sung-Yuan Studies (JSYS) homepage! JSYS (ISSN 1059-3152) is an annual publication devoted to promoting scholarship in all disciplines related to the Sung, Liao, Chin, Hsia, and Yuan dynasties in China. Scholars are encouraged to submit manuscripts of articles, bibliographies, and research notes. All submissions are evaluated by referees. Except for bibliographies, ...

Silk Road DunHuang Grottoes Thousand Buddha Cave - DunHuang is the name of the city. It is located between Urumgi and Yumen. It was an oasis irrigated by the Tang River and began to serve as an important way staion on the main trade route between China and Central Asia since the first century B.C. when Emporor Han Wu-ti started to expand the empire westwards. This was an area where many races ...

ARTHUR M. SACKLER PEKING UNIVERSITY, BEIJING, CHINA M U S E U M Background The Collection Exhibitions Special Events Visiting Hours Arthur M. Sackler Museum of Art & Archaeology The Jillian Sackler Sculpture Court & Garden The Sackler Museum & the Sculpture Court & Garden were made possible by a major contribution from the AMS Foundation for the Arts, Sciences and Humanities. Presented by Mrs.

Terra Cotta Warriors of the Qin Dynasty Back to Qin Dynasty Chronology The terra cotta warriors were accidentally discovered by Chinese peasants while digging a well. This discovery prompted archaeologists to proceed to Shaanxi, China to investigate. No one knows why this site became buried and lost among memories in the clay and in the minds of China. What they found was the ancient burial-site ...

DUNHUANG ART Salient Features of Dunhuang Cave Art Appendix 1 Chinese Characteristics of the Cave Architecture Indian Flying Figures to the Chinese Flying Fairies Feminization of the Bodhisattvas Portraits of the Donors in Dunhuang Caves: Special Class of Portrait Painting in Chinese Art Illustrations of the Universe of Mahayana Sutras Dunhuang Murals: A Treasury of Music and Dance Dunhuang Cave ...

Dunhuang Caves In China Dunhuang and the Cave of Manuscripts Dunhuang has 492 caves, with 45, 000 square meters of frescos, 2, 415 painted statues and five wooden-structured caves. The Mogao Grottoes contain priceless paintings, sculptures, some 50, 000 Buddhist scriptures, historical documents, textiles, and other relics that first stunned the world in the early 1900s. Dunhuang is an oasis town ...

Few Tourists Will Gaze On Pyramid Nest in China Monday, March 31, 1947 Reprint from Rocky Mountain News This long-forgotten pyramid recently was snapped from the air by army photographers in a remote region of western China. Col. Maurice Shehan, Far Eastern director of Trans-world Airlines, was among the first to report the phenomenon. Washington, March 30. - The giant pyramid reported ...

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The Eighth Wonder of the World An absolutely incredible sight. Shhhhhh! If you close your eyes and listen, you can hear the soldiers breathing, the horses snorting and pawing the ground with their hooves, the generals barking out orders and the wind blowing through the valley. So lifelike, they appear to be flesh and bone under a thin veneer of potters clay. (None of the images of warriors or ...

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Welcome to @xinhuanet.com Username: Password: Underwater Mystery Unravels 2001.06.04 14:42:15 BEIJING # June 4# Xinhuanet# Yesterday morning Chinese archaeologists began their first ever underwater exploration of a huge archaeological site deep in Fuxian Lake in Southwest China's Yunnan Province # according to China Daily. The exploration has kicked off a large archaeological campaign aimed at ...

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