Prompted by our adventurous spirit, our tour group set out to explore a stretch of the ancient Silk Road less traveled by ...
A group of students recently recreated a rice dish using an ancient recipe – and the results were unusual. The challenge was undertaken by researchers at the Yuelu Academy of Hunan University in China ...
In his bookThe Origin and Goal of History, German philosopher Karl Jaspers introduced the concept of the “Axial Age”, which has gained widespread recognition in global academia. Jaspers argued that ...
A groundbreaking discovery in the realm of ancient medicine has emerged from a 2,200-year-old tomb in southern China. Researchers uncovered a Chinese text on silk that could very well be the world’s ...
Madeleine Brand speaks with Stephen Beard of Marketplace about trade and currency in China. China is expanding its trade surplus with Europe and the United States, and its currency is gaining against ...
What did an ancient Chinese emperor from 1,500 years ago look like? A team of researchers reconstructed the face of Chinese Emperor Wu of Northern Zhou using DNA extracted from his remains. The study ...