Beijing's Forbidden City is a treasure trove of priceless antiquities. Behind the scenes, it takes a team of skilled workers ...

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

When vegetable fats, especially sesame oil, replaced tallow and lard 1,500 years ago in China, people were able to 'fry everything', and did Guests at a recent housewarming dinner were saying how ...

The most often quoted appraisal of Zhang Daqian, an artist at the summit of 20th-century Chinese art, is by another great ...

In ancient China, spring rains were called "as precious as oil" for their vital role in nature's spring revival. Today, a ...

New research from scientists with the Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences and published in the journal Science found that sample analysis backs up an established model of the moon as a global ...

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 ...

[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 ...

Deep beneath the surface of Qiandao Lake, an ancient metropolis remains frozen in time, untouched by centuries of decay. Known as Shi Cheng or Lion City, this forgotten wonder has earned the nickname ...

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 ...