Depicting Taoist deities in a misty landscape, a Qing dynasty lacquer panel inlaid with jade and agate is among thousands of artefacts pulled out of museum storage in China to be restored, and one day ...

The Great Wall of China wasn’t a single construction project, but rather a series of defensive and border fortifications ...

Excavations at the Dadong Site in Helong, Jilin province, have unveiled world-class discoveries from the Paleolithic period, ...

Bingxi events included modern elements like speed and figure skating, as well as ice soccer, archery, acrobatics, martial arts and ice wrestling. A bingxi painting in the collection of the Palace ...

This unique degree programme offers training in an unparalleled range of ancient languages and their associated history, culture and textual traditions. Students study Hebrew and either Greek or Latin ...

Official manufacturing PMI at 49.1 in Jan, weakest since Aug Non-manufacturing growth in January slows to 50.2 Beijing faces lopsided export-led recovery BEIJING, Jan 27 (Reuters) - China's ...

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A local government in India is offering a $1 million prize to the first person who cracks the code of an ancient script found in the ruins of one of the world’s earliest civilizations.

YIWU, China—Li Bingnan got his orders in October: Design a snake-themed sculpture for his hometown——and make the scaly, legless creature cute. The Year of the Snake is slithering closer ...

As China’s leaders brace for a potential tariff war with the US, they’re signaling a break with decades of convention. On past occasions when the world’s second-biggest economy ran into ...

China’s state-owned Cosco shipping giant had purchased a 60% stake in the port for US$1.6 billion (A$2.6 billion), which gave the company exclusive use of the port for 60 years. Days later ...