Are you as assured as Ashurbanipal about your knowledge of Mesopotamia, or as dim as Nimrud?

The flowing celestial robes in Dunhuang murals, featuring flying goddesses, and the legendary attempt by Wan Hu to reach ...

Animals are a focal point in the intricate carvings of Dian bronze ware, such as oxen, tigers, deer, monkeys, rabbits and ...

Neolithic cemeteries in China reveal matrilineal societies, challenging traditional assumptions about early human societies.

Archaeologists on Thursday unveiled a 3,500-year-old city in Peru that likely served as a trading hub linking Pacific coast cultures with those in the Andes and Amazon, flourishing around the same ...

A guqin master provides hands-on instruction to a student on the playing techniques of this ancient Chinese instrument. Photo ...

Most people don’t give two licks about the problems of the wealthy one percent, and with valid reason. After all, what’s to ...

Prokopis Pavlopoulos, former president of Greece, said that East-West exchanges on human rights transcend geographical boundaries and remain crucial to the development of global civilization. The ...

In the great dance between the two rivals, it’s getting harder to tell which of them is leading and which is following.

In both Jewish and Chinese cultures, the home is more than a dwelling—it is a sacred space that reflects the soul of a family ...

Beyond what we see in ruins and texts, ancient Jerusalem was alive with sound — from temple chants and crowded markets to the ...

Chinese Academy of Sciences researchers report that fossilized entomopathogenic fungi from mid-Cretaceous amber reveal some ...