Rishiraj Kulkarni has spent close to a decade seeking out such sounds, recording them and finding the right instruments to ...

Thus, Buddha appeared in bronzes from India, Pakistan, China, Thailand and Japan, representing various periods and regional ...

Stone tools unearthed in China's Yunnan province suggest Neanderthals or another ancient human species adapted to harsh ...

Since Li Bing, then a governor of Sichuan, built the Dujiangyan Irrigation Project around 256 BC, the Chengdu Plain has had no major floods or drought. With fertile land and grain harvest, it is known ...

The answer could shake up what’s known about human origins during this period of the Stone Age, according to new ... at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History in Washington ...

Zithers and Flutes of the Brocade City, an exhibition at Chengdu Museum, in Sichuan province, celebrates the city's music tradition, gathering artifacts such as a stone relief depicting musicians ...

Jeffrey Ludlow explores how donor signs on cultural institutions symbolise power and wealth, but also sometimes controversy ...

Archaeologists made the discovery in a cave overlooking the ocean on the southern coast of South Africa - that was once ...

The author of “Convenience Store Woman” has gained a cult following by seeing the ordinary world as science fiction.

Visiting a museum is another way of learning more about a place, which is why I look forward to stepping into one every time I travel to a new destination. Having been to the biggest museums in the ...

While sifting through the ruins of an ancient building in Oman, archaeologists unearthed a pair of green-blue discs. The finds turned out to be a 4,000-year-old musical instrument — offering a “rare ...

The term “folk music” does not refer to a single type of music. Genres such as country, bluegrass, blues, Celtic, jazz, ...