A study tracking rainfall patterns over thousands of years has found that more arid periods coincided with ages of dynastic ...

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 ...

The heroine uses her skill at growing peonies to earn herself a fortune, and becomes a successful entrepreneur, with a ...

Discover the massive terracotta army, buried for centuries and revealing the grandeur of China's first emperor, Qin Shi Huang. Uncover the history, mythology, and mystery of the tomb complex and its ...

During his lifetime, Qin Shi Huang became obsessed with achieving immortality and sought the elusive elixir of life.

The Byzantine Empire maintained an intriguing relationship with ancient China, thus sending ambassadors there.

Archaeologists have struck actual gold in the village of Holztem in Parc Hosingen, Luxembourg—unearthing a trove of 141 ancient Roman ... effigies of nine Roman emperors whose collective rules ...

BANGKOK: Thai authorities denied on Wednesday (Jan 22) there was an immediate plan to send back to China 48 Uyghurs held in the country's detention centres, after UN experts warned the group ...

Befitting its ancient lineage, the citrus genus has taken on symbolic significance in different religions around the world. In China, pomelos are traditionally eaten during the mid-autumn festival ...

“We have seven or possibly even eight native species in this country, whereas in China, they have only five.” The first citrus varieties to arrive in the Mediterranean from Asia were the citron and ...