Experts reveal that merchants brought domestic cats to China via the Silk Road, supported by new DNA research on ancient cat ...

Lanterns, a Full Moon, Valentines, Presidents & Pisces We have a busy week, this last week of Aquarius, sign of freedom and future visions of life as it could be. Wednesday, February 12, is the full ...

The Shanxi Provincial Institute of Archaeology in North China's Shanxi Province has revealed new excavation findings ...

Renowned for their sense of commerce and diplomacy along the Silk Road from Antiquity to the High Middle Ages, the Sogdians ...

Thousands in Taiwan and China have celebrated the Lantern Festival, a holiday that marks the end of the Lunar New Year period ...

For the traditional filling, walnuts, sesame seeds and peanuts are stir-fried and peeled, then mixed with melted malt sugar, ...

This day eventually became the cornerstone of what is now known as the Spring Festival. This moment is given special ...

Since humans discovered the power and capability that comes with numbers, we have lived in societies that enable us to … ...

The Church of the East was already present among various Mongol tribes when Kublai Khan (1260–1294) conquered China. Though ...

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