A team of about 150 restorers fuses scientific analysis and traditional techniques to clean, patch up and otherwise revive ...

Local farmers discovered thousands of terracotta warrior statues in Shaanxi, China, in 1974. How much do you know about these ...

Seeing land rights as the key to lifting up the impoverished, he pushed authoritarian governments as well as emerging ...

A CURIOUS HYBRID of spoon and fork, the spork might seem like a modern-day convenience—one of those quirky plastic utensils dished out at fast-food joints. But its roots stretch back thousands of ...

William Dalrymple's how India was a major trading partner of the Roman Empire Trade was primarily conducted through sea routes rather than the Silk Road Hundreds of vessels arrived in India each ...

How and when domestic cats arrived in China has been a mystery. A new analysis of cat DNA suggests traders and diplomats likely carried the pets with them along the Silk Road 1,400 years ago.

Officials in conservative communities in the United States have been removing books from schools and libraries, to the outrage and dismay of liberal-minded Americans. This process has reportedly ...

vice chairman of the Chinese Peasants and Workers Democratic Party and a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. Jiao, who is also former ...

[Photo/Xinhua] Xinjiang was known as Xiyu, or the Western Regions, in ancient China. Following its unification during the reign of Emperor Qianlong (1735-96) of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), the ...

China, and Indonesia. Weighing around three pounds, Miopetaurista’s lightweight build was well-adapted for gliding through dense forests. The climate in ancient Tennessee was much warmer than it is ...

IN his Conway Memorial Lecture, "Science and Society in Ancient China", delivered on May 12, 1947, Dr. Joseph Needham attempts to sketch a pattern of the organisation of Chinese feudal society and ...

Data obtained by the Chinese Zhurong Martian rover has revealed what look like sandy beaches from the shoreline of an ancient ocean that may have existed long ago on Mars’s northern plains. The ...