Some of the best ancient weapons aren’t offensive ... Dating back to the Warring States period in China, the repeating crossbow could hold multiple bolts and would knock and cock the weapon ...

To track the species' decline, researchers have turned to an unusual source— ancient Chinese poetry. Researchers analyzed 724 ancient Chinese poems that referenced the Yangtze porpoise.

Workers unpack a box containing the remnants of an ancient Chinese silk manuscript at Beijing Capital International Airport on Sunday before delivering them to the National Administration of ...

Thanks to International Museum Day, two major exhibitions spotlighting ancient Chinese and Syrian civilizations are opening this month in Beijing, Ganzhou and Huzhou. Featuring hundreds of rare ...

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The conversation sparked Zhou’s decades-long fascination with Aboriginal-Chinese history, culture and communities, which are largely unacknowledged in either Australia or China. Zhou was so ...

The couple’s remains were wrapped in jade burial suits now regarded as some of China’s greatest national ... that the tomb was indeed an ancient burial chamber. Excitement mounted when they ...

Rossi et al. A team of Italian researchers has discovered markings on the walls of Pompeii that could be the first known evidence of the use of an ancient and sophisticated weapon of war: the ...

Among them were the classic American history chronicle Lies My Teacher Told Me, the political thriller Hong Kong, the works of T.S. Eliot and a travel guide about China. On his wall hung a silver ...

In more recent years, Beijing has invoked the history of the Silk Road as ideological ballast for China’s 21st-century geopolitics, casting its network of major global infrastructure investments ...