If not for the work of two scholars, Alice Kober and Michael Ventris, the ancient Greek script Linear B would likely still be ...

A study tracking rainfall patterns over thousands of years has found that more arid periods coincided with ages of dynastic ...

Throughout history, China has maintained a deep connection with ice and snow. Beyond simply enduring the harsh cold winter ...

He particularly favors Tang Dynasty calligrapher Ouyang Xun, whose kaishu (regular script) works are vigorous and forceful, ...

Food from ancient, and not-so-ancient, times, has seen cuisine from across China appear on tables at home and abroad to this ...

A prize offered by an Indian state leader is intended to shed light on a Bronze Age civilization — and settle a cultural ...

Ren's tour group was led by Xing Yaolong, a scholar with the Chinese Association of Dunhuang ... Using Dunhuang's Mogao Grottoes, a treasure trove of ancient Buddhist relics and art, as an example ...

The ancient populations expanding out of Africa subsequently interbred somewhere in southeast Asia with another group of archaic hominins, the mysterious Denisovans, adding a layer of Denisovan ...

In 2017, China initiated the World Shiology Forum, which played a significant role in uniting global scholars and leading the development of this discipline. At the 3rd World Shiology Forum held ...

Tantrism became a major force in China in the seventh and eighth centuries and had followers among Chinese intellectuals of the highest standing. Since many Tantric scholars had a deep interest in ...

ABU DHABI, 12th January, 2016 (WAM) -- A graduate from New York University Abu Dhabi, NYUAD, has been named to the first cohort of Schwarzman Scholars, a highly sought-after scholarship at one of ...

Befitting its ancient lineage, the citrus genus has taken on symbolic significance in different religions around the world. In China, pomelos are traditionally eaten during the mid-autumn festival ...