The show at Throckmorton considers 7,000 years of carved and polished Chinese jade. Jade has always been a luxury staple in China, but in antiquity it was the decoration of choice to accompany the ...

Miners recently unearthed a giant jade bolder in the Southeast Asian country of Myanmar, also known as Burma. The jade stone weighs 192 U.S. tons, one of the largest piece of jade found in the ...

Since the Stone Age, Jade has been mined in China. Originally, the stone was used for simple ornaments, weapons, tools, and beads. However, over time the value of Jade increased.

Although archaeologists have unearthed Neolithic jade tools along the Yellow River, the Chinese affection for the stone received a lift around 1600 B.C., when Shang dynasty royals took to sleeping ...

Kraft guesses that the jade and labor that went into it, if ordered in the market, would have come to perhaps $1,500,000. But Baptist Kraft is not thinking about the value.

This jade axe is highly polished and would have taken hours to make. ... The polished stone axe was a revolutionary tool that transformed society and the landscape after the Ice Age.