This video uses an ancient bronze vessel in the shape of a rhinoceros in the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco that dates to the Shang dynasty in China to answer the question: what is bronze?

This video describes what bronze is, how it is made through smelting, and explains why bronze is a useful material.

CHAPTERS

0:00 What is bronze?

0:24 What is an ore and where are ores found?

0:37 What is a metallurgist? What is smelting?

01:18 What types of objects can be made from bronze?