Primarily, the compass was used for geomancy for a long time before it was used for navigation Ancient Chinese alchemists realized that the magnetite ore would point towards a magnetic north. Their ...

Here, in a village of stone huts set amongst dense mangrove trees, Kristof met a number of elderly men who told him that they were descendants of Chinese sailors, shipwrecked on Pate many ...

Before paper was invented, the ancient Chinese carved characters on pottery ... This led to the first compass, called a sinan (south-pointing ladle) during the Warring States Period.

IN his Conway Memorial Lecture, "Science and Society in Ancient China", delivered on May 12, 1947, Dr. Joseph Needham attempts to sketch a pattern of the organisation of Chinese feudal society and ...

and five imposing city gates—an unusual feature in ancient Chinese city design. But in 1959, a bold decision by the Chinese government changed its fate forever. To make way for a hydroelectric ...

During the Ming and Qing dynasties, ancient Chinese bells were divided into musical bells, Buddhist bells, Taoist bells, imperial court bells and bells for sounding the night watches. Their ...