A Han-dynasty pottery tile emblematically representing the five cardinal directions

Gandharan Buddhist missionaries were active, with other monks from Central Asia, from the 2nd century AD in Han-dynasty ( 202 BC – 220 AD ) China's capital of Luoyang, and particularly distinguished themselves by their translation work.

A Han-dynasty iron Ji ( halberd ) and Chinese swords | iron dagger

A Han-dynasty era Molding ( process ) | mold for making bronze gear wheels ( Shanghai Museum )

Because the medical " silk manuscripts " dating from around 200 BC that were excavated in the 1970s from the tomb of a Han-dynasty noble in Mawangdui are undoubtedly ancestors of the received Neijing, scholars like Nathan Sivin now argue that the Neijing was first compiled in the 1st century BC.

Though Han wooden structures decayed, some Han-dynasty ruins made of brick, stone, and rammed earth remain intact.

Chi You, the mythical opponent of the Yellow Emperor at the Battle of Zhuolu, here depicted in a Han-dynasty tomb relief.

Although the traditional Chinese calendar did not mark years continuously, some Han-dynasty astronomers tried to determine the years of the life and reign of the Yellow Emperor.

One of the oldest attested Chinese names is Kūnmò 昆莫 ; in Han-dynasty documents it was referred to as Yīwú 伊吾 or Yīwúlú 伊吾卢, in the Tang dynasty as Yīzhōu 伊州 ; in the Yuan dynasty the Mongolian name for the place, Qamil, was transcribed into Chinese as Hāmìlì 哈密力 and from the Ming dynasty Qumul was known as Hāmì 哈密.

An Eastern-Han pottery ship model with a steering rudder at the stern and anchor at the bow

This ship model is made of clay and features a distinctive prow shaped like a boar ’ s head that is described by Herodotus in History, and depicted on pottery, coins seals and drinking cups.

Liubo players inside an Eastern Han model pottery tower

The world's oldest known depiction of a stern-mounted rudder can be seen on a pottery model of a junk dating from before 1st century AD, though some scholars think this may be a steering oar-a possible interpretation given that the model is of a river boat that was probably towed or poled.

One of oldest known depiction of a stern-mounted rudder in China can be seen on a 2 ft. long tomb pottery model of a junk dating from the 1st century AD, during the Han Dynasty ( 202 BC-220 AD ).

The model for the painting was ( Lydia ) Sylvette David, also known by her married name Lydia Corbett, a French woman who worked in a pottery studio not far from his studio in Vallauris, in the spring 1953.

The tentative identification of two fragmentary Mycenaean terracotta figures as centaurs, among the extensive Mycenaean pottery found at Ugarit, suggests a Bronze Age origin for these creatures of myth.

The new town also included shops, schools, mills, a granary, a hotel, library, distilleries, breweries, a brick kiln, pottery ovens, barn, stables, storehouses, and two churches, one of which was brick.

Excavation of the earth of the altar yielded burnt stones, small animal ( cow and pig ) bones, tiny pottery fragments, iron knives, clay figures, coins from Aegina, a clay figure of a bird, and two small bronze tripods.

In the tomb were found an ornate inlaid table, two inlaid serving stands, and eight other tables, as well as bronze and pottery vessels and bronze fibulae.

Use of obsidian in pottery of the Neolithic in the area around Lipari was found to be significantly less at a distance representing two weeks journeying.

It was one of the first industrial cities of the modern era where, as early as 1785, two hundred pottery manufacturers employed 20, 000 workers.

However, the earliest certain evidence of human settlement in the region of Sparta consists of pottery dating from the Middle Neolithic period, found in the vicinity of Kouphovouno some two kilometres south-southwest of Sparta.

In later British and Irish metalwork, the same style was imitated using casting, which is often called imitation chip-carving, or sometimes just chip carving ( authors are not always careful to distinguish the two ), a term also sometimes applied to pottery decorated in a similar way.

Archaeologists use the terms Khabur ware and Nuzi ware for two types of wheel-made pottery used by the Hurrians.

A Zuni drying platform for maize and other foods, with two women crafting pottery beneath it.

The study of the means of placing pottery and other cultural artifacts into some kind of order proceeds in two phases, classification and typology: Classification creates categories for the purposes of description, and typology seeks to identify and analyse changes that allow artifacts to be placed into sequences.

Around two thousand years ago, the Woodlands people, known for their burial mounds and pottery, occupied the area.

The two barrows on Barren Down, to the north of the town centre, have been found to contain cremation burials from the bronze age, and a further bronze age burial site contained a skeleton as well as some pottery.

Hesiod calls them two " lovely-haired " creatures, and pottery art depicting the harpies featured beautiful women with wings.

Several stone altars contained dedications to Coventina, as did two pottery incense burners.

In ancient Greece, the symbolon, was a shard of pottery which was inscribed and then broken into two pieces which were given to the ambassadors from two allied city states as a record of the alliance.

Wacousta consists of a general store, library, auto repair shop, a Masonic lodge, pottery studio and store, book store, an elementary school ( Wacousta Warriors ), cemetery, two parks, a church, and a few hundred houses.

Aaronsburg is home to two churches ( Salem Lutheran and Reformed ), three cemeteries, a library, historical museum, and a pottery shop.

The tomb itself contained the remains of an adult male that was interred with a jade and shell necklace, a pair of jade earflares, two shell disks, a pair of pearls, five pottery vessels, and fifty-nine valves of Spondylus shell.

He wrote an account of the mound and its tomb, describing what he saw as its " barbarous sculpture " and noting that animal bones, beads and pieces of glass had been found inside of it ( modern archaeologists have speculated that these latter two were in fact the polished pottery beads that have subsequently been found at the site and which were a common feature of Neolithic tombs ).

The two symbols on the club's badge are a bottle oven and the Stafford knot, associated with the city of Stoke-on-Trent's pottery industry and the history of the local area.

The fact that the clay pounders prepare only enough clay for two people to work with full-time at the wheel has determined both household structure and the number of houses able to take up pottery in Sarayama.

Jose Miguel Barandiaran explored it partially in 1936, finding two stone percutors, a polished axe of ophite, fragments of pottery and human remains.

The Persians were one of the first civilizations to have tales of blood-drinking demons: creatures attempting to drink blood from men were depicted on excavated pottery shards.

The burial customs of the comb pottery people included additions of figures of animals, birds, snakes and men carved from bone and amber.

Early records of races are evident on pottery from ancient Greece, which depicted running men vying for first place.

While descriptions of Viracocha's physical appearance are open to interpretation, it should be noted that men with beards were frequently depicted by the Peruvian Moche culture in its famous pottery, long before the arrival of the Spanish.

These men worked in the nearby pits at Norden supplying Purbeck Ball Clay to Josiah Wedgwood and other pottery manufacturers.

Multani khussa ( traditional shoes ), embroidery on dresses for women and men, furniture and other wooden products, earthenware pottery, painted pottery, camel-skin ware, surgical instruments and carpets are a few of the city's major exports, with a great demand within the country as well.

The Chief or " Cacique " was the head of the settlement and also had " chamanes " ( spiritual leaders ), warriors, farmers, hunters, pottery men, and goldsmiths.

A female aulos-player entertains men at a symposium on this Red-figure pottery | Attic red-figure krater | bell-krater, c. 420 BC.

Some men also produced baskets, and some women made pottery.

It is represented in some artistic depictions of male and female nudity, examples of which may be seen in some red figure pottery of Ancient Greece on which both men and women were depicted without body or pubic hair.