Treasures From the Bronze Age of China
Treasures From the Bronze Age of China
The Metropolitan Museum of Art | 1980 | ISBN: 0870992309 | English | 194 pages | PDF | 29.3 MB
This beautiful full-color presentation of the superb works of art found in the tombs, mausoleums, and buried hoards of ancient China reveals the emergence almost 4,000 years ago of a remarkable civilization that becomes more fascinating with each new discovery. Recent decades have seen a tremendous surge in archaeological research in China, and the finds of the last five years rank among the world's most important of this century, making Chinese archeology one of the fastest growing—and most exciting—areas of art history today.