During my recent visit to the Netherlands, Philippine Ambassador Eduardo J. Malaya took me to see the literally palatial ...

To connect worlds, one had to protect them. The Han emperors understood this, and the Great Wall was built over 11,000 ...

There are also many miniature wooden farm animals and tools once used as funerary objects — evidence of the thriving ...

as the region still boasts some of the finest beef and mutton in China. Leitai Han Tomb in Wuwei, a 15th-century shrine dedicated to the God of Thunder, sits right atop a tomb dated to around the ...

Not just jade, the techniques of metalworking and chariot-building ... the latter's ancient seabeds and their layered sedimentary rocks. In the 1920s and '30s, a group of Chinese geologists ...

Archaeology is the scientific study of past human life and activities through the recovery and analysis of material remains, ...

The oldest Tamil epics are based on women from mercantile families. It has nothing to do with warriors or priests. The ...

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

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Archaeologists in China’s Yunnan province unearthed stone tools crafted in a style associated with Neanderthals that hasn’t ...