Missing for decades from the Anglophile version of its origin story was another great visual narrative tradition, of the East ...

A Shanghai-based maker of “blind box” figurines made $1.8 billion last year—and continues to grow across the world.

“[These characteristic] inevitably provokes an analogy with modern toy dolls.” Radiocarbon dating indicates the figurines were buried around 400 B.C.E., a period known as the Middle Preclassic ...

Three of the figurines have articulated heads, causing them to resemble modern toy dolls. The authors suggest they were a kind of ancient puppet, positioned into a scene, or "tableau," undoubtedly ...