Having lived in China for more than two decades, I know Chinese households rely on ancient Chinese wisdom to make their daily lives better. Even though the fundamentals of household life have seen ...

For more than 600 years, the people of the Tunpu, fortified villages of the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), in Anshun city, Guizhou province, have kept alive customs rooted in a military migration that took ...

The burial mound of Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor of a unified China, is one of the most tantalizing unopened tombs on Earth, yet it remains sealed beneath a forested hill in Shaanxi province.

Archaeologists are terrified to open the tomb of Qin Shi Huang, China's first emperor who has been buried for 2,200 years. The tomb of Qin Shu Huang, who ruled from 221 BC to 210 BC, is guarded by a ...

Brendan Fraser confirms talks for 'The Mummy 4' with Rachel Weisz, calling it the sequel he's 'been waiting 20 years for.' ...

The skeletal remains of a giant panda have been unearthed from a royal tomb in China dating back approximately 2,000 years to the Western Han Dynasty. This find, not only sheds light on the prominence ...

An intrepid archaeologist in China has followed a series of clues from ancient texts leading to his discovery of an ornate stone vessel that he suspected indicated the lost burial mausoleum of the ...

ABSTRACT: Historical documentation indicates that the presence of necrophilia has been a constant since approximately 455BC, and one of its very first instances was recorded in Ancient Egypt. This is ...

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This summer, the Shanghai Museum unveiled its latest blockbuster exhibition, “Legends of the Dragon: The Ancient Civilization of Hongshan Culture.” To date, it is the most comprehensive display of the ...

The Byzantines maintained relations with China. Credit: Carole Raddato, Flickr CC-BY-SA 2.0 The Byzantine Empire, which was known at the time as the Eastern Roman Empire, maintained a relatively ...