Block engraving may be used to print books in a variety of traditional styles, to create modern books with conventional binding, or to reproduce ancient Chinese books.

UNESCO: Culture

The technique is mainly passed from fathers to children or from masters to apprentices strictly following ancient Buddhist painting books that provide instruction on line and figure drawing, colour matching and pattern design.

UNESCO: Culture

My books are historic, if not ancient, and betray an unnerving reluctance to step into the 21st century.

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Perhaps if he had, like Egyptologist Howard Carter, discovered gold, jewelry and other fabulous funerary objects during his exploration of the ancient overland road to China rather than musty books of Buddhist sutras (even if they did include the world's oldest known printed volume), his lasting fame might have been secured.

CNN: Books

Brownfield lent them books on American art and heard tales of heartbreak at watching the looting of ancient treasures from Iraq's national museum.

FORBES: Smart Collecting

Some 100, 000 visitors are expected to view the around 8, 000 objects from 95 French and international dealers in an enormous range of disciplines, including ancient, modern and Asian art, jewelry, weapons, ceramics, glass, furniture, books and tapestries.

WSJ: Book Is a Collector's Item

Books, tribal masks, and animal trophies held court over hushed salons of leather furniture and ancient broad-plank floors.

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The National Library of China (NLC) contributed manuscripts, maps, books, and rubbings of steles and oracle bones that span the range of Chinese history from ancient to modern times.

UNESCO: Communication and Information