The Metropolitan Museum of Art's engaging "Recasting the Past" exhibition looks at the antiquarian spirit in China since the 12th century.

To truly get an impression of the place, the only way is by traveling it, she believes. For the next 44 years, Rawson ...

The documentary sheds light on the preservation of 5,000 years of Chinese civilization, the innovative development 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 ...

For centuries, the study of cuneiform—the world’s oldest known writing system—relied on painstaking manual transcription, with scholars dedicating years to deciphering individual tablets. You needed a ...

[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 ...

These symbols are part of an entirely undeciphered script from a sophisticated ancient civilization thousands ... all sorts of people around the world, writing in different languages – with ...

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 ...

Our degree is designed to give you advanced-level training in a diverse selection of ancient languages, as well as an excellent grounding in transferrable skills such as critical thinking, academic ...

A mountain resembling the head of a puppy has become a tourist destination along an ancient Chinese river ... he took near the mountain in 2021, writing: "After I saw the Puppy Mountain photo ...