Ancient Persians believed the sky was blue because it reflected a massive sapphire beneath the Earth, giving the stone cosmic symbolism. Kings, priests, and rulers wore sapphires to signal wisdom, ...

The ancient strategy resurfaced after Prime Minister Takaichi said Japan might need to respond militarily if China forced ...

This imaginative idea has become a reality thanks to Maodou (pseudonym), a young Chinese vlogger with more than a million ...

The figure of Chanakya looms large in traditional accounts of ancient India; a Brahmin sage-statesman, described as the ...

CHINA DAILY A recent advanced DNA study on horse bones unearthed from the mausoleum of Emperor Wen of the Western Han Dynasty ...

Infrared scans of newly studied slips from the Marquis of Haihun tomb have confirmed the first known complete version of The ...

But scholars are now finding even older possible references. Ancient Greek texts, for example, such as Aristotle's ...

What You Need to Know: China’s Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC) recently unveiled the White Emperor (see image ...

The 'Book of Songs,' inscribed on bamboo slips, was China’s most famous literary work and had now been found in its complete ...

Examine the intricate design of a Qing Dynasty emperor’s silk robe. Get lost in the bustle of a busy festival in late Ming ...

Ancient cultures had vastly different interpretations of the dramatic natural phenomenon.In the days after a Jacobite ...