The 7 million tourists who visit China's Forbidden City every year encounter a fascinating question: How did ancient Chinese workers manage to put in place the palace's iconic 300-ton carved marble ...

These exquisite artworks are carved from natural stones. The colored stones exist only in Shoushan village, in southeastern China's Fuzhou, therefore they are called "Shoushan stone". One thousand ...

The Beijing Stone Carving Art Museum, which houses 2,600 stone artifacts, will reopen to the public on Dec 31 after a two-year renovation that cost more than 10 million yuan. [Photo by Wang Kaihao / ...

Rising 57 meters high, the Laozi statue and the 36-ton jade seal together stand as remarkable new symbols of Chinese cultural ...

Management authorities of Mount Taishan, a UNESCO world heritage site in east China's Shandong Province, have reported their latest finding of a stone carving that dates back more than nine centuries.

ATHENS, Dec. 19 (Xinhua) -- An exhibition featuring 100 Chinese decorative objects dating back to the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) has opened door this week at the Byzantine and Christian Museum in Athens ...

More than 80 stone carvings, including a Buddha head, and building components have been discovered inside a cave of the Longmen Grottoes, a 1,500-year-old UNESCO World Heritage site, in Luoyang, ...

I hope you can help me identify this piece of sculpture. My mother had this piece sitting around for years and now it has been passed down to me. It is 7 inches tall and 6 inches wide. What is it ...

Miami University was recently presented with a Chinese ornamental sculpture carved from a translucent celadon-green stone called “Xiuyan jade” (bowenite) mined in Liaoning Province, China. Depicting a ...

As the famed “Silk Road” might imply, the history of the prized textile dates back to the earliest days of China, with a recent study tracing early emergences of silk to around 8,500 years ago. On ...

Located in Jiangkou township of southwest China's Sichuan province, the 17.4-meter-long stone dragon dates back to Song Dynasty (960-1279). As the stone carving had been exposed to the elements, it ...

The objects are among 89 antiquities seized by the D.A. as part of a years-long criminal investigation into Shelby White’s collection. Chinese Consul General Huang Ping with an ancient stone carving ...