The Roman Orient and the Far East*

Publisher： Cambridge University Press

E-ISSN： 1745-1744|11|41|5-30

ISSN： 0003-598x

Source： Antiquity, Vol.11, Iss.41, 1937-03, pp. : 5-30

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Abstract

Compared with the civilizations of Egypt and the Near East, Chinese civilization as we know it is not of great age. Authentic history does not begin until about the ninth century B.C. (a commonly accepted date is 841 B.C.), nor have we archaeological finds that we can reasonably date prior to the thirteenth or fourteenth century B.c., though the beauty and mature style of the earliest known bronzes indicates a history of at least hundreds of years before this.

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