Theancient Chinese made beautiful jewellery using surprisingly advanced technology, a study hints. The intricately carved spirals on a 2,500-year-old jade ring may have been made by a complex ...

More than 100 jade relics have been unearthed from the site, dating back 5,000 to 5,400 years, including a palm-size, emerald ...

While the type of jade used in the Olympic medals was called nephrite, the jadeite embedded in the lost ring is the harder and rarer type, known as Fei Cui in Chinese. Colour, transparency ...

Specialists believe most ancient Chinese jades were hand-carved, but Lu thought the spirals on the jade rings were machine-made as soon as Jenny So, an art historian at the Chinese University of ...