In the Song Dynasty (960-1279), Lingyin Temple and Tianzhu temples remained the main tea-producing areas around the West Lake ...

Yet the answers remained elusive — until his quest connected him remotely with researchers at the Jingdezhen Ancient Ceramic ...

Legend has it that in the Ming Dynasty, this area housed barrel-makers employed by Shen Wansan, Jiangnan's richest merchant.

In the sweltering summer of AD18, a desperate chant echoed across China's sun-scorched plains: "Heaven has gone blind!" ...

The three men, who had earlier burgled a museum in Switzerland, conspired to murder Paul Allen who was shot at his home in ...

"The style reminded me of early to middle Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) porcelain," he said. Determined to solve the mystery, he subjected the plate to multiple scientific tests in the Netherlands and ...

Three men from Greenwich who travelled to shoot a man in his own kitchen have been jailed for 104 years in total.

Ming dynasty officials had their meager wages supplemented ... been seen at the start of the Han dynasty, 2,000 years earlier. 4. Social norms emphasize harmony, preserve privilege One other ...

As a chemist, I am greatly troubled by the attack on our scientific community — the National Institutes of Health, the ...

A gang of thieves from London who stole ancient artefacts from a Swiss museum have been jailed for plotting to kill a cage ...

Wright’s legal team also cited one prisoner suffering excruciating burns after being made to stand barefoot in a room while the underfloor heating was ramped to 100.4 degrees Fahrenheit (38 ...