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Bronze is an alloy consisting primarily of copper, commonly with about 12–12.5% tin and often with the addition of other metals (including aluminium, manganese, nickel, or zinc) and sometimes non-metals, such as phosphorus, or metalloids, such as arsenic or silicon.
There are numerous Chinese names for the fire-producing "sun-mirror" and water-producing "moon-mirror". These two bronze implements are literary metaphors for yin and yang, associating the "yang-mirror" yangsui with the Sun (a.k.a. tàiyáng 太陽 "great yang"), fire, dry, and round, and the "yin-mirror" fangshu with the Moon (tàiyīn 太陰 "great yin"), water, wet, and square.
The Bronze Age (c. 3300 – c. 1200 BC) was a historical period characterised principally by the use of bronze tools and the development of complex urban societies, as well as the adoption of writing in some areas. The Bronze Age is the middle principal period of the three-age system, following the Stone Age and preceding the Iron Age. [1]
It is the first element to be discovered in metallurgy, Copper and its alloys were also used to create copper-bronze images such as Buddhas or Hindu/Mahayana Buddhist deities. [15] Xuanzang also noted that there were copper-bronze Buddha images in Magadha. [15] In Varanasi, each stage of the image manufacturing process is handled by a ...
Bronze censer (kōro) with dragon made by Kimura Toun (c. 1800-1870). Musée Cernuschi. Koro (Japanese: 香炉, kōro), also a Chinese term, is a Japanese censer often used in Japanese tea ceremonies. Examples are usually of globular form with three feet, made in pottery, Imari porcelain, Kutani ware, Kakiemon, Satsuma, enamel or bronze.
This cist tomb—containing certain jade ornaments (Gogok jewels and tubular beads) and bronze tools—is believed to have belonged to the highest-ranking leaders of this particular Songguk-ni community as its contents align with the general elite paraphernalia of the Middle Mumun Period. [5]
In the Ancient Near East, clay tablets (Akkadian ṭuppu(m) 𒁾) [1] were used as a writing medium, especially for writing in cuneiform, throughout the Bronze Age and well into the Iron Age. Cuneiform characters were imprinted on a wet clay tablet with a stylus often made of reed . Once written upon, many tablets were dried in the sun or air ...
Three Olmec celts. The one in the foreground is incised with an image of an Olmec figure. Celts from Transylvania. In archaeology, a celt / ˈ s ɛ l t / is a long, thin, prehistoric, stone or bronze tool similar to an adze, hoe, or axe.