The C-shaped jade dragon is another classic artefact of Hongshan culture. Two such artefacts presenting soaring, curved-shape dragons with raised, hook-like horns were found by local farmers as they ...

The "pig dragon" is recognized as a representative image of Hongshan. Jade headgear suggests long-distance exchanges with the Lingjiatan culture in present-day Anhui province 5,800 to 5,300 years ago.

Hongshan pig dragon, thought to possibly be one of the first representations of the sacred Chinese dragon in art.

Chinese archaeologists have unearthed the largest jade dragon ever discovered from the Hongshan culture, an important part of the Neolithic Age, at a stone tomb site in the city of Chifeng, north ...

A number of archeologists were also arrested, with one of them telling the Beijing Times that he had sold the jade pig dragon for 3.2 million renminbi ($520,000) and bought houses for himself and ...

A visitor takes photos of an exhibit during a media preview of the exhibition titled "Legends of Dragon: The Ancient Civilization of Hongshan Culture" at the Shanghai Museum East in east China's ...

The exhibition, titled “Legends of Dragon: The Ancient Civilization of Hongshan Culture,” will be held at the Shanghai Museum from June 26 to October 8 and is free to the public.

Archaeologists have discovered a 5,000-year-old jade dragon artifact while excavating a burial mound in northeastern China. The object measures roughly six inches long, four inches wide and one ...