Shudao, or the ancient road to Shu, Sichuan's former name, is a network of roads spanning more than 1,000 kilometers, ...

While US and Israeli fire threatened some of Iran’s most cherished cultural relics, scores of Persian artefacts were safe and ...

A recent archaeological excavation in northwest China has uncovered a 3,000-year-old burial site containing deliberately broken bronze weapons, offering a remarkable glimpse into ancient attitudes ...

No other ancient historian has written a book so insightful on the mechanisms of war as Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War.

Coined by German philosopher Karl Jaspers, the "Axial Age" refers to the period roughly between 800 and 200 BC, when major ...

The bronze daggers and knives were intentionally damaged during burial as offerings to ensure deceased's peaceful passage ...

The assemblage suggests that the ancestors of some of today’s animal groups may have arisen before the famed Cambrian ...

Finches and Bamboo, Song Dynasty, Zhao Ji, 33.8 × 55.4 cm, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Picture: Supplied.The University ...

The country should begin renaming places in Xinjiang using their ancient names — Khotan, Kushgar, Kucha, Yarkand, Turfan, et al. The region itself can be called Bhadrasva, a name firmly grounded in ...

According to traditional Chinese history, he was possibly a contemporary of Confucius and may have been a wise sage who wrote a brief but valuable work known as Daodejing (or the Classic of the Way ...